Scars of Partition. Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands

Sèbe, Berny

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“…3 Our new data improve upon the commonly used map of ethnic groups from Murdock (1959). We agree with the descriptive claim in existing work that many ethnic groups were partitioned across international borders (Asiwaju 1985;Miles 2014), which Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2016) confirmed using the Murdock data. However, we contend that the Murdock data cannot be used to adequately assess whether precolonial states affected country borders or, more generally, whether border formation was haphazard (see Supplementary Appendix A.3).…”

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“…African colonial borders are less aligned with ethnic geography than borders elsewhere (Müller-Crepon, Schvitz, and Cederman Forthcoming), and they frequently dismembered ethnic and cultural groups across international boundaries (Asiwaju 1985;Miles 2014). Such borders, even when they incorporated local features, clearly created deleterious human consequences.…”

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“…For example, although all the major Yoruba states were preserved within Nigeria on the basis of British treaties, the broader Yoruba cultural area was politically fractured, which enabled France to make credible claims in Western Yorubaland (Asiwaju 1976, 9). Consequently, although many ethnic groups in Africa were partitioned amid the Scramble (Asiwaju 1985;Miles 2014), we anticipate that this process was not arbitrary or as-if random. Historical states were systematically different than areas lacking political unity.…”

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Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa

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We revise the conventional wisdom that Africa’s international borders were drawn arbitrarily. Europeans knew very little about most of Africa in the mid-1880s, but their self-interested goals of amassing territory prompted intensive examination of on-the-ground conditions as they formed borders. Europeans negotiated with African rulers to secure treaties and to learn about historical state frontiers, which enabled Africans to influence the border-formation process. Major water bodies, which shaped precolonial civilizations and trade, also served as focal points. We find support for these new theoretical implications using two original datasets. Quantitatively, we analyze border-location correlates using grid cells and an original spatial dataset on precolonial states. Qualitatively, we compiled information from treaties and diplomatic histories to code causal process observations for every bilateral border. Historical political frontiers directly affected 62% of all bilateral borders. Water bodies, often major ones, comprised the primary border feature much more frequently than straight lines.

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Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa

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RICART-HUGUET

2024

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“…Historical factors may also influence innovation activities. One such factor is the institutional legacies of colonialism (Miles, 2014). For instance, colonial legacies of the British and French are acknowledged to still have a large impact on education, science and research, and innovation activities in Africa (Okey, 2014).…”

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Analysing frugal innovation incubation programmes: a case study from the water sector

Mvulirwenande¹,

Wehn²

2020

Prometheus

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Perceived positive impacts of frugal innovation for sustainable global development have triggered a variety of programmes to foster such innovation. To increase the impact of these programmes, it is important to understand how they function. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for the analysis of interventions that foster frugal innovations through incubation. Drawing on relevant theories and concepts in the field of innovation and related literature, the framework is based on two major categories of factors influencing the nature and outcome of frugal innovation incubation. The first category relates to the incubation process, the second to the innovation environment. The proposed framework is applied to the case study of VIA Water, a Dutch programme to foster water innovation in African cities. The framework and the case study presented in this paper demonstrate the complexity of a frugal innovation incubation process and thus the need to take a holistic approach when designing and/or analysing related interventions. We conclude that frugal innovation incubation programmes should consider that the innovation capabilities of potential frugal innovators tend to be weaker in developing than in developed countries. Therefore, incubation programmes should devise strategies that present frugal innovators possessing local knowledge and creative ideas with a realistic chance of competing.

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Scars of Partition. Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands

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Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa

Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa

Analysing frugal innovation incubation programmes: a case study from the water sector

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