This land is my land
The Ethio-Sudan boundary and the need to rectify arbitrary colonial boundaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11422809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mulatu Wubneh (East Carolina University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 441-466 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-9001 • E-ISSN: 1469-9397 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02589001.2016.1143602 |
| OpenAlex | W2312290327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 15 |
Ethiopia and Sudan share a common boundary of over 1600 km which was drawn through a series of treaties between Ethiopia and the colonial powers of Britain and Italy. To date, this boundary has not been clearly demarcated. In 2007, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, the current ruling government, entered into a secret agreement with the Sudan to make adjustments on the border. This paper identifies the major factors that have frustrated efforts to address the Ethio-Sudan boundary problem and also proposes solutions on how Ethiopia and Sudan could resolve their differences. The analysis reveals that political, social and cultural factors; the decision to adopt the western concept of the boundary; and the failure to recognise the historic and cultural constructs have contributed to the frustration of negotiations on the border. The paper proposes that Ethiopia and Sudan embrace the African Union Border Program, which encourages mutual cooperation, regional integration and the building of communities with strong economic and cultural ties
Boundary (topology · Colonialism · Democracy · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Front (military · Geography · Government (linguistics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Law
Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance
Colonial borders and hybrid identities
Nexus of political tensions and cross-border contraband trade between Ethiopia and the Sudan, 1974–1991
Contesting issues between Ethiopia and Sudan over the Gwynn Line
A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019
Border diplomacy and state-building in north-western Ethiopia, c . 1965–1977
Trajectories of border dispute between Ethiopia and the Sudan over the Humera-Metema (Al-Fashaga) region
Coping with local peoples' livelihood dependence on the transboundary Dinder–Alatish National Parks in Sudan and Ethiopia from the Sudanese Perspective
Conflict in the Contested Borderland
The Diplomacy Of Imperialism, 1890–1902
Partitioned Africans
African boundaries
Ethio-British negotiations concerning the western border with Sudan, 1896–1902
The Origins of the Ethiopian–Egyptian Border Problem in the Nineteenth Century
The Nature of Frontiers and Boundaries
A Glimpse of Western Abyssinia
Along Ethiopia's western frontier
Surveys on the Proposed Sudan-Abyssinian Frontier
A Journey in Southern Abyssinia
The Background of the Ethio-Somalian Boundary Dispute
An Overview and Assessment of Gambella Trade (1904-1935)
The Anglo-Ethiopian treaty of 1902
The cultural construction of state borders
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |