For reasons found wise and effective, african states judged necessary or even compulsory, the adoption of a borderer principle. Thus in the consecutive summit of African unity organisation (AUO) held in Cairo in 1964, the African organisation decided that the intangibility principle of colonial fronteers or be applied in the all-African continent. The Colonial territory transformed into national territory, African countries aimed at creating and reinforcing a national sentiment, on the base of colonial fronteers respect. This study purpose is to analyse the nation-states formation strategies, since sacralisation of frontiers in postcolonial Africa. Relatively to the descriptive analysis, the description-observation and the comparative analysis of press clipping, articles review, printed sources and specific works, the study enables to know and understand the colonial frontiers intangibility’s policy in a relation of national construction in the continent, after more than forty years of practice of that principle.
Keywords: Africa, State, Borders, Intangibility, National and Political.
