To better understand the true picture and opportunities in borderlands, the UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre undertook a targeted mapping of data and stories from Africa’s borderlands. The Centre tapped into the power of pictures and illustrations to create a coffee book which elevates the voices of borderland communities.

Building on a database of 106 border pairs in Africa and a repository of stories and pictures from these borderland regions, the book puts a face to the quantitative data contained within the Borderlands Encyclopedia Dashboard. This first edition focuses on 8 countries where primary data was collected as part of the Borderland Centre’s flagship research into sources of resilience of agro-pastoralists in borderlands.