Nigeria's Border Diplomacy

Power and Hegemony in Africa

Oladotun E. Awosusi, Olusola Ogunnubi

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Routledge
10 November 2025

Regional studies; Development studies; Comparative politics; Diplomacy; Development economics

Series: Routledge Borderlands Studies

This book examines the ways in which Nigeria’s borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country’s relations with other African states.

Across land, air, sea, cyberspace, and even outer space, Nigeria uses its borders to insert the country into the heart of African geopolitics. Drawing on the African realist conception of African internationalism, this book analyses how the country exerts the geographic advantage of its territoriality as a diplomatic instrument to assert its regional aspirations. The authors also examine how Nigeria positions itself amongst its direct West African neighbours and within the ECOWAS ‘borderless Protocols’ and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the book goes further to consider how Nigeria uses non-physical borders, deploying space exploration and cyber security initiatives to further its hegemonic influence in Africa.

This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of Political Science, International Relations, Border Studies and African Studies.

By: Oladotun E. Awosusi, Olusola Ogunnubi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032500287
ISBN 10: 103250028X
Series: Routledge Borderlands Studies
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 10 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Oladotun E. Awosusi is a Research Fellow at Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He also holds an appointment as a Research Fellow at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service (UACS), Little Rock, United States, where he is completing a third postgraduate degree, with a focus on Public Service. He currently leads an international project at the Global Ties Arkansas, Little Rock, United States. He previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at different higher institutions, including the University of Fort Hare, where he completed his doctoral degree in Political Science. His research interests cover diplomacy and politics of borders (physical and virtual), comparative borderland studies, international migration, security studies, African regional affairs, and global development. His research interests cover diplomacy and politics of borders (physical and virtual), comparative borderland studies, international migration, security studies, African regional affairs, and global development. His research works have appeared in various reputable international Journals and publishing outlets, such as Global Society, Comparative Migration Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of African Affairs, Insights on Africa, Palgrave Macmillan,Rowman & Littlefield and others. His scholarly contributions have earned him various speaking engagements at international conferences/seminars in different countries of Africa, Europe, and North America. Olusola Ogunnubi is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and African Studies (CGAS), University of the Free State, South Africa. He also holds dual appointments as Teaching and Research Fellow in the Centre for International and Defence Policy (CIDP) and the Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, where he is completing a second doctorate with specialty in International Relations and Gender Studies. He is a recipient of numerous academic honours, including the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Award, the Peacock Award, and the Robert Sutherland Fellowship. Prior to his doctoral studies in Canada, he served as Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has also held visiting research positions at Carleton University, University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies, and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). His research explores the overlapping themes of norm dynamics, critical minerals and resource governance, African technological agency, regional power hierarchies, soft power, and African diplomacy. He is co-editor of five scholarly volumes, and his work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Politikon, South African Journal of International Affairs, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Journal of Developing Societies, International Journal of Culture, Politics and Society, Politeia, and Insight on Africa.