ABSTRACT Pervasive border-making processes continue to produce territories and new borders within independent African states. Yet, current African border scholarship does not pay enough attention to the ongoing colonial dominance in post-independence practices in sub-national borders. This paper examines both colonial and post-independence mechanisms that support the creation and governance of the Selous Game Reserve: a World Heritage Property of significant ecological and economic importance within Tanzania’s national jurisdiction. The paper draws attention to how past and present border processes depend on both top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. It argues that there are similarities between the way borders in Selous Game Reserve are being redrawn and colonial-style border making practices sanctioned at the Berlin conference. The case study of Selous Game Reserve challenges the current pre-occupation of African scholars and technocrats with state borders and their artificiality by highlighting the material impact of internal border-making processes. The paper calls for a critical analysis of sub-national borders in post-independence Africa, especially the ways in which internal and external forces produce them.

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坦桑尼亚的柏林诅咒：（重新）制作世界遗产

摘要 无孔不入的边界制定过程继续在独立的非洲国家内产生领土和新边界。然而，目前的非洲边境研究并没有充分关注在次国家边界独立后实践中持续的殖民统治。本文考察了支持塞卢斯禁猎区的创建和治理的殖民和独立后机制：塞卢斯禁猎区是坦桑尼亚国家管辖范围内具有重要生态和经济重要性的世界遗产。该论文提请注意过去和现在的边界进程如何依赖于自上而下和自下而上的机制。它认为，塞卢斯禁猎区重新划定边界的方式与柏林会议批准的殖民风格的边界制作做法之间存在相似之处。塞卢斯禁猎区的案例研究通过强调内部边界制定过程的物质影响，挑战了非洲学者和技术官僚目前对国家边界及其人为的偏见。该论文呼吁对独立后非洲的次国家边界进行批判性分析，特别是内部和外部力量产生这些边界的方式。