Ettore Morelli, Ph.D. (2019), SOAS, is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Basel. His research focuses on the history of central southern Africa from Mapungubwe to the lifaqane (c. 1200–1830s). He has published on various themes in African history.

"For readers engaged with borderlands, mobility, and West African history, the volume offers substantial insights that meaningfully contribute to the expansion and refinement of the concepts of borders and thresholds." – Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Centre for African and Development Studies, University of Lisbon, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists 06.02.2026.

• PrefaceLists of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The ThresholdEttore Morelli1 Merchants without Borders: Lançados and Luso-Africans in Upper Guinea, 1450s–1600sFernando Mouta2 Gyzikoa: Twin-Folk and Threshold on the Orange River Border, Southern Africa 1686–1796Ettore Morelli3 ‘No Palaver about 1 or 2 Villages with 10 or 20 inhabitants’Pierluigi Valsecchi4 Thresholds, Borders and Cowries: the Problem of Small Change in West Africa and the Spread of Single Currencies in Northern GhanaMaría José Pont Cháfer5 Border Crossing, Strategies of Resistance and Colonial Violence: Narratives from Northern Ghana and Togo (1920s–1940s)Giulia Casentini6 Borderities and Freedom in Colonial and Post-Colonial African Borderlands: a Case Study of the Borders in the Lake Chad BasinAimé Raoul Sumo TayoConclusion: Places of PassageEttore MorelliBibliographyIndex

Ettore Morelli, Ph.D. (2019), SOAS, is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Basel. His research focuses on the history of central southern Africa from Mapungubwe to the lifaqane (c. 1200–1830s). He has published on various themes in African history.

"For readers engaged with borderlands, mobility, and West African history, the volume offers substantial insights that meaningfully contribute to the expansion and refinement of the concepts of borders and thresholds." – Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Centre for African and Development Studies, University of Lisbon, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists 06.02.2026.

• PrefaceLists of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The ThresholdEttore Morelli1 Merchants without Borders: Lançados and Luso-Africans in Upper Guinea, 1450s–1600sFernando Mouta2 Gyzikoa: Twin-Folk and Threshold on the Orange River Border, Southern Africa 1686–1796Ettore Morelli3 ‘No Palaver about 1 or 2 Villages with 10 or 20 inhabitants’Pierluigi Valsecchi4 Thresholds, Borders and Cowries: the Problem of Small Change in West Africa and the Spread of Single Currencies in Northern GhanaMaría José Pont Cháfer5 Border Crossing, Strategies of Resistance and Colonial Violence: Narratives from Northern Ghana and Togo (1920s–1940s)Giulia Casentini6 Borderities and Freedom in Colonial and Post-Colonial African Borderlands: a Case Study of the Borders in the Lake Chad BasinAimé Raoul Sumo TayoConclusion: Places of PassageEttore MorelliBibliographyIndex

Ettore Morelli, Ph.D. (2019), SOAS, is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universität Basel. His research focuses on the history of central southern Africa from Mapungubwe to the lifaqane (c. 1200–1830s). He has published on various themes in African history.

"For readers engaged with borderlands, mobility, and West African history, the volume offers substantial insights that meaningfully contribute to the expansion and refinement of the concepts of borders and thresholds." – Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, Centre for African and Development Studies, University of Lisbon, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists 06.02.2026.

• PrefaceLists of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The ThresholdEttore Morelli1 Merchants without Borders: Lançados and Luso-Africans in Upper Guinea, 1450s–1600sFernando Mouta2 Gyzikoa: Twin-Folk and Threshold on the Orange River Border, Southern Africa 1686–1796Ettore Morelli3 ‘No Palaver about 1 or 2 Villages with 10 or 20 inhabitants’Pierluigi Valsecchi4 Thresholds, Borders and Cowries: the Problem of Small Change in West Africa and the Spread of Single Currencies in Northern GhanaMaría José Pont Cháfer5 Border Crossing, Strategies of Resistance and Colonial Violence: Narratives from Northern Ghana and Togo (1920s–1940s)Giulia Casentini6 Borderities and Freedom in Colonial and Post-Colonial African Borderlands: a Case Study of the Borders in the Lake Chad BasinAimé Raoul Sumo TayoConclusion: Places of PassageEttore MorelliBibliographyIndex