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Mbembe : This is what will happen in Africa if you open African borders

Sign post at the Kenya-Tanzania border

NAIROBI, KENYA : Renowned African historian, Joseph Achille Mbembe, has made a solid case for Africa’s integration through open borders that allow free movement of people on the continent.

“History tells us that the first thing you do to incapacitate people is to restrict their ability to move.  Mobility allowed the stretching of societies; was determinant to trade and to building African civiliations,” Mbembe said.

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