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Rebirth of a Strategic Continent?: Problematizing
Africa as a Geostrategic Zone
Abou B. Bamba
Gettysburg College
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Bamba, Abou B. "Rebirth of a Strategic Continent?: Problematizing Africa as a Geostrategic Zone." African Geographical Review 29.1
(2010): 91-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2010.9756227
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Rebirth of a Strategic Continent?: Problematizing Africa as a Geostrategic
Zone
Abstract
At a time when the U.S. Department of Defense is putting the finishing touches to the establishment of a
military command for Africa (known as AFRICOM) and the People’s Republic of China’s influence on the
continent seems to be on the rise, a detour through the history of America’s past geographical imaginations of
Africa appears as a necessity. This is especially crucial since the current constructions of the African continent
as a strategic place in both policy and military circles seems to echo the geodiscursive representations of Africa
during the Second World War. In fact, it was in the early 1940s that Africa publicly ceased to be the place of
safari that past or sitting American presidents toured and became a continent endowed with a strategic
significance. I argue in the lines that follow that American geographer-diplomats and politically-minded
cartographers played a key role in this shift. More significantly, I suggest that global historical forces and
developments provided the context to understand 2 this attitudinal change among American decision-makers,
geostrategists, and academics. Finally, I recommend that Africanist geographers in academia engage the many
(past and present) parallel geographic epistemologies regarding Africa, including the ways of seeing and the
body of cartographic knowledge about the African continent that military and/or intelligence services and
institutions have produced over the years, both in times of war and peace.
Keywords
Africa, geostrategic zones, cartography, Unites States
Disciplines
African Studies | Diplomatic History | History
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