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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Cross-border Traders in Cunene (Angola) and Urban Growth
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45. Moving Angola
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| Paper ID | 318 |
| Author(s) |
Rodrigues, Cristina Udelsmann
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No paper submitted
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| Abstract | The growth of the Cunene province capital – Ondjiva – and of Santa Clara – Namibia bordering village - in the south of Angola largely depended on the increase of commercial exchanges between both countries, especially since the end of the Angolan civil war. Although traders on both sides have found, during the war periods, strategies to maintain this flow of goods and people, it was only from 2002 on that the fluxes in these regions have intensified, causing, in one hand, the settling of rural and neighbouring provinces’ population on these sites and, on the other, the development of Ondjiva and Santa Clara. In this paper are analysed the recent growth dynamics and their relation to the intensification of commercial routes in different contexts – war, peace and free circulation – and the strategies of the population vis-à-vis market regulation, state control and urban growth. |
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