Przestrzeń i granice a regionalozm w Afryce Subsaharyjskiej - afrykańska i europejska percepcja

The author of this paper has aimed at featuring regionalisation processes on the African continent in the context of transformations taking place at the threshold of the 21st century throughout the world. Globalisation, virtualisation and trans-national processes have sparked-off national and international transformations and induced state-dominated systems. As a result of the concurrent regionalisation processes and the development of cohesive border regions, the existing state frontiers now serve as bridges rather than barriers. The emergence of a new economic geographic set up has positioned the present national states in between the space marked territorially by borders and that of the world market. The author analyses regionalisation processes in Africa in the African and European perspective as well as from the regional and global viewpoint. He dwells on the circumstantial conditions and premises determining these processes. He also attempts to answer whether the development of effective integration structures in Africa depends solely and exclusively on the inhabitants of this continent alone.