Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin
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Abstract
This article explores how grassroots Pan-Africanism is lived and practiced in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB), a region where borders function both as instruments of state control and as conduits for transnational connection. Drawing on interviews conducted across the LCB region, it traces how everyday cross-border interactions sustain regional solidarities that blur the boundaries of national identity. Rather than framing African borders solely as rigid enclosures or colonial relics, the article approaches them as fluid sites of negotiation – simultaneously regulating mobility and enabling forms of belonging that extend beyond the state. By foregrounding the lived experiences of borderland communities, it reframes Pan-Africanism as an everyday, improvisational practice rooted in mobility, resilience, and mutual dependence. In doing so, it contributes to broader debates on African integration, showing how regionalism is not only imagined by states but enacted from below.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it