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\This is Ghanaian territory!\: Land conflicts on a West African border
Most African borders have remained permeable, not least because the colonial and postcolonial states have lacked the necessary resources to enforce them more rigidly, \"top-down.\" In this article, I analyze the ways in which an African border has been dealt with \"from below,\" partly ignored or subverted and partly appropriated. The border between Ghana and Burkina Faso, drawn up in 1898, was soon adopted by the borderlanders as a political resource, capable of shielding them from colonial tax and forced-labor requirements. Local networks of kinship and strategies of land use, on the other hand, usually ignored the border. Although the border cut through many earth-shrine areas, the indigenous institution on which land rights are traditionally based in the region, the shrine custodians continued to exercise their ritual control on both sides of the border. In recent conflicts over land, however, lineal boundaries separating sovereign national territories have been used to usurp traditional land rights. I discuss one such conflict, in which rights to use a fishpond are contested, to explore local perceptions of space and boundaries and how these change in relation to international borders.
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State Policies, Local Prejudices and Cattle Rustling Along the Ghana-Burkina Faso Border
This article briefly discusses the various factors that gave rise to tension in northern Ghana between Fulbe pastoralists coming in from Burkina Faso and the local Kassena farmers (who have livestock of their own). The Ghanaian government's decision in 1988–89 to expel the Fulbe resulted in more problems, not least the dilemma of how to patrol effectively the permeable borderland and the gradual introduction there of modern firearms. In consequence some argue that it is not the policies of conservation that are being called into question but the government's sovereignty. Cet article examine brièvement les facteurs á l’origine des tensions survenues dans le nord du Ghana entre pasteurs Fulbe venus du Burkina Faso et agriculteurs Kassena locaux (également propriétaires de bétail). La décision du gouvernement ghanéen d’expulser les Fulbe, en 1988 et 1989, engendra d’autres problèmes, á commencer par le dilemme entre une surveillance efficace de la région frontalière perméable par des patrouilles et l’introduction progressive d’armes á feu modernes dans cette région. Par conséquent, certains soutiennent que ce ne sont pas les politiques de protection qui sont mises en question mais la souveraineté du gouvernement.
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