Description

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Using a historical lens to interrogate why and how people cross borders in the SADC region, this book explains how nation-states and national communities are made in the borderlands and shows how communities and individuals have fought back against regimes attempting to contain and control them through securitized borders.

About the Author

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Munyaradzi Mushonga is the program director for the Africa Studies Program in the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State.John Aerni-Flessner is associate professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, and research fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State.Chitja Twala is professor of history at the University of Limpopo, and research fellow in the Department of History at the University of the Free State.Grey Magaiza is deputy director for the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, Qwaqwa.