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  • Chapter 1 Introduction Transport Corridors in Africa: Synergy, Slippage and Sustainability
  • Chapter 2 Infrastructure, Development and Neoliberalism in Africa: The Concept of Transport Corridors
  • Chapter 3 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Temporal Layers of Transport Corridors in Uganda
  • Chapter 4 From Priority Projects to Corridor Approaches: African and European Transport Networks in Perspective
  • Chapter 5 The Political Economy of West African Integration: The Transport Sector on Two Port Corridors
  • Chapter 6 The Dakar–Bamako Corridor: Between Boom and Contradictions
  • Chapter 7 Privatising the Port: Harbouring Neoliberalism in Lomé
  • Chapter 8 A Time for Realignment? Retrofit in the Golden Era of the Cameroonian Railways
  • Chapter 9 When is a Corridor Just a Road? Understanding Thwarted Ambitions Along the Abidjan–Lagos Corridor
  • Chapter 10 The Jealousy of Roads: Construction, Circulation and Competition on East Africa’s Transport Corridors
  • Chapter 11 Following the Tracks: Chinese Development Finance and the Addis–Djibouti Railway Corridor
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This book is based on research from a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for the project entitled African Governance and Space: Transport Corridors, Border Towns and Port Cities in Transition (AFRIGOS) [ADG-2014–670851]
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Cover photograph: Trucks and petrol tankers waiting to cross from Katuna (Uganda) to Gatuna (Rwanda) on Northern Corridor, with One-Stop Border Post under construction (2016) (photograph: Paul Nugent)

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Description: Transport Corridors in Africa
Transport Corridors in Africa
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    • Transport Corridors in Africa
    • Transport Corridors in Africa
    • Related James Currey Titles on Central & Southern Africa
    • Transport Corridors in Africa
    • Copyright
    • Illustrations
    • Notes on Contributors
    • Preface and Acknowledgements
    • Chapter 1 Introduction Transport Corridors in Africa: Synergy, Slippage and Sustainability
    • Chapter 2 Infrastructure, Development and Neoliberalism in Africa: The Concept of Transport Corridors
    • Chapter 3 Hidden in Plain Sight: The Temporal Layers of Transport Corridors in Uganda
    • Chapter 4 From Priority Projects to Corridor Approaches: African and European Transport Networks in Perspective
    • Chapter 5 The Political Economy of West African Integration: The Transport Sector on Two Port Corridors
    • Chapter 6 The Dakar–Bamako Corridor: Between Boom and Contradictions
    • Chapter 7 Privatising the Port: Harbouring Neoliberalism in Lomé
    • Chapter 8 A Time for Realignment? Retrofit in the Golden Era of the Cameroonian Railways
    • Chapter 9 When is a Corridor Just a Road? Understanding Thwarted Ambitions Along the Abidjan–Lagos Corridor
    • Chapter 10 The Jealousy of Roads: Construction, Circulation and Competition on East Africa’s Transport Corridors
    • Chapter 11 Following the Tracks: Chinese Development Finance and the Addis–Djibouti Railway Corridor
    • Chapter 12 Corridors of Opportunity? African Infrastructure and the Market Expansion of Chinese Companies

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Transport Corridors in Africa
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 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.
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Hugh Lamarque and Paul Nugent
PublisherJames Currey
Print publication date Aug, 2022
Print ISBN 9781800104761

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Transport Corridors in Africa
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James Currey
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May 18, 2025
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