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Academics Stand Against Poverty

Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in United States (EIN # 32-0324998).  Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world. Such work will address the structural causes of poverty with an eye to the special challenges poor people face in such areas as nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.  Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages, and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South as well as from non-elite educational institutions and from organizations, agencies and communities that are working toward poverty eradication. It also aims for the widest possible reach by being entirely open-access: its one/two issues each year are free for download anywhere in the world without any requirement to provide personal information. Journal ASAP invites submission of original work and maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review system that provides constructive feedback to assist authors in presenting their work in a way that is clear, broadly accessible and practically useful. Journal ASAP is a pure Open Access Journal and allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.

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Article recordVersion of recordOpen accessVol 9 No Special IssueAugust 17, 2026

Africa’s Migration: Redrawing Borders and Building Unity

Forced migration in Africa is more than a humanitarian crisis; it reshapes political, economic, and social structures by altering identities, redrawing borders, and challenging governance. This paper examines the histor…

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  • Immanuel Mwendwa Kiilu

    School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Strathmore University, Kenya

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  • Guy N'nahano Muhanzi

    School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Strathmore University, Kenya

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Forced migration in Africa is more than a humanitarian crisis; it reshapes political, economic, and social structures by altering identities, redrawing borders, and challenging governance. This paper examines the historical roots of displacement, from precolonial mobility systems to disruptions caused by colonial-era borders and postcolonial state formation and analyses the political and economic shifts driven by migration. It explores security risks, opportunities for regional cohesion, and the role of the African Union’s Protocol on the Free Movement of Persons (FMP) in fostering integration. Through historical analysis, case studies from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Kenya, and a legal and policy review, this study argues that Africa must transition from viewing forced migration as a destabilising force to recognising its potential to drive mobility, innovation, and unity. To achieve stability and prosperity, Africa must shift from restricting mobility to harnessing it for development and resilience. A border is just a line on a map until people are forced to cross it; then it becomes a question of survival, identity, and power. Borders define states, but people shape civilisations. The true test of Africa’s future lies in how it embraces those forced to move.

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MigrationMobilityDisplacementBordersIntegration

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