KARINE BENNAFLA.

KARINE BENNAFLA, Le trade frontalier en Afrique Centrale: acteurs, espaces, pratiques. Paris: Karthala (2500 [euro] ISBN 2 84586 230 X) 2002 368 pp

Although the importance of cross-border trade in Africa is widely acknowledged, detailed studies of the phenomenon remain relatively thin forward the ground. Because of the many difficulties involved in conducting this kind of research, the best material has wait oned to emerge from particular case studies, from which it is not always easy--or perhaps uniform wise--to generalise. This study admirably demonstrates that it is possible

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