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

• In Event: Legacies and Policy

Brief Overview

We demonstrate that boundary drawing in colonial Africa followed a systematic rather than as-if random process. European powers relied on focal points such as the rough boundaries of precolonial states and salient geographical factors.

Authors

• Jack Paine, University of Rochester

• Xiaoyan Qiu, University of Rochester

• Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland