| Summary: | This paper aims to discuss the interest that the use of the banality may have in analyzing border conflict in Central Africa. After a discussion of two complementary approaches of banality, inspired by the work of Jean-Marc Ela and Achille Mbembe, the text explores some figures of this banality in situations of border conflict in the Cameroonian context. Finally, these empirical cases allow initiating a discussion on the relevance, for political geography, of reappropriating this entry to broaden its analyses of Africa. It emerges that the mobilization of banality reveals the nuances and subtleties present in the situations and configurations neglected in border areas and that reflect the conflicts expressed there. This approach can also help to take the continent out of a "look" that nevertheless confines it to a situation of exceptionality likely to justify various positions.
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