CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE SPATIAL TURN IN AFRICAN STUDIES by Ulf Engel, Paul Nugent -- ACTORS, PLACES, REGIONS, AND GLOBAL FORCES: AN ESSAY ON THE SPATIAL HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1700 by Allen M. Howard -- STATE, REGION AND SPACE IN AFRICA by Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian Taylor -- SIAMESE TWIN TOWNS AND UNITARY CONCEPTS IN BORDER INEQUALITY by David B. Coplan -- RESPACING FOR PEACE, SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE AFRICAN UNION BORDER PROGRAMME IN EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by Anthony I. Asiwaju -- STAYING PUT IN MOVING SANDS: THE STEPWISE MIGRATION PROCESS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN MIGRANTS HEADING NORTH by Joris Schapendonk -- RESHAPING CONGOLESE STATEHOOD IN THE MIDST OF CRISIS AND TRANSITION Timothy Raeymaekers and Koen Vlassenroot -- THE NEO-TRIBAL COMPETITIVE ORDER IN THE BORDERLAND OF EGYPT AND LIBYA Th omas Hüsken -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.