Related James Currey Titles on Central & Southern Africa

Hugh Lamarque; Paul Nugent

Roots of Rural Poverty in South Central Africa, ROBIN PALMER & NEIL PARSONS (EDS)

Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana, KENNETH GOOD

Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier, JO-ANN MCGREGOR

Circular Migration in Zimbabwe and Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, DEBORAH POTTS

Remaking Mutirikwi: Landscape, Water and Belonging in Southern Zimbabwe, JOOST FONTEIN

The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976–1992, ERIC MORIER-GENOUD ET AL. (EDS)

Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon, CHARLOTTE WALKER-SAID

Manhood, Morality & the Transformation of Angolan Society: MPLA Veterans & Post-war Dynamics, JOHN SPALL

Protestant Missionaries & Humanitarianism in the DRC: The Politics of Aid in Cold War Africa, JEREMY RICH

Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities, MILES LARMER ET AL. (EDS)

Namib: The Archaeology of an African Desert, JOHN KINAHAN

The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000–2020: Bones, Rumours & Spirits, JOOST FONTEIN

Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican & the Making of Postcolonial French Africa, JEAN LUC ENYEGUE, SJ

Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism & the State, VICTOR MUCHINERIPI GWANDE*

Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the ‘Wild’, MICHAEL BOLLIG ET AL. (EDS)*

* forthcoming

Previous Next

Details

Transport Corridors in Africa

Stable URL:https://openaccess.boydellandbrewercms.com/?id=-247159

Open Access license

In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue. The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the coordination of transport and trade developments on the continent in recent decades. Existing analysis of the "Corridor" - a label with a great capacity to change shape, guiding funding and infrastructural priorities at different times and in different settings - tends to be presentist, technical, and conveyed in the language of transport economics. The chapters collected here showcase a more varied approach, offering perspectives from academics and policy-makers coming from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. They capture the varied forms of the corridor concept (developmental, transport, and trade corridors), the multiplicity of actors (including China and the European Union), as well as the different permutations of the infrastructure itself, in corridors linking coastal states and in others that link coastal states with the hinterland. The breadth of cases allows for a comparative perspective of East, West, and Southern Africa, as well as the basis of comparisons outside of the continent in Europe, South Asia, and elsewhere.
The motivations behind corridor initiatives in Africa range enormously, from resource extraction to urban development and poverty reduction. A lot depends on scale, and this collection places the grand designs thrashed out at continental and regional economic forums alongside the individual concerns of drivers and cross-border traders hauling goods across the continent's checkpoints. What emerges are a number of central tensions in the study of transport corridors: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between road and rail as modes of transportation; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue; between different port configurations; and between local dynamics and the dynamics of long-distance transportation.

Author

Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugent

PublisherJames Currey

Print publication date Aug, 2022

Print ISBN 9781800104761

Base text size -

Related James Currey Titles on Central & Southern Africa

Transport Corridors in Africa

Chapter illustrations ()