Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law and A Concise Overview of the Pacific Settlement of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- E. Ike Udogu Ph.D., Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: For the past 50 years or so, the media and intellectual discourses on African politics have general
portrayed the continent as being in perpetual turmoil. Th e causes of such conflicts have been
related, but not limited, to the outcome of the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 in which some of
the European powers carved up the region in a zigzag fashion with little or no concern for the
ethnic complexions of the societies. Th e result of this policy in post-colonial and independent
Africa has been disastrous for much of the continent with numerous civil wars and cross border
clashes between African states. Th e use of arms struggle to resolve border conflicts is now seen as
counter productive to the vision of African unity and transformation in the millennium as first
articulated by the Organization of African Unity and now championed by the African Union –
the successor to the OAU. Th is study brings into the limelight the extent to which African states
are increasingly relying on international law, the AU and the Good Offices of the UN and its
various agencies to resolve international boundary conflicts. It also historicized the development
of international law in Africa and discussed as a case study the impressive pacific settlement of
the explosive border dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria to illustrate its importance as a
model for Africa.
Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law and A Concise Overview of the Pacific Settlement of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute
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- Publication
- Udogu, E.I. (2008). Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law and A Concise Overview of the Pacific Settlement of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula Dispute. African & Asian Studies, 7(1), 77-99. Published by Brill Academic Publishers (ISSN: 1569-2094). doi:10.1163/156921008X279316.
- Language: English
- Date: 2008