African Nebula, September 2010, Volume 1, Issue 2 I am pleased to present the online version of the second issue of Africa Nebula. Dr Ogen and the editorial team for African Nebula bring us this pout pourri of rich scholarship on and around Africa, bringing together scholars from around the world and the interdisciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences. Samar Habib PublisherArticles IR Theory as Politics, International Politics as Theory: A Nigerian Case Study by Emily Meierding, University of Chicago, USA Border and Borderland Identity in Western Senegambia: A Comparative Perspective of Cross-Border Governance in Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea Bissau by Aboubakr Tandia, Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, Senegal Women, Shari'ah, and Zina in Northern Nigeria by Adesina, Oluwakemi Abiodun, Osun State University, Nigeria The Boundaries of Borno in the Nineteenth Century: The Perception of Travellers by Vincent Hiribarren, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Science and Technology as Site for Language Contact: Experience from the Linguistic Style of Motor Mechanics in Southwestern Nigeria by Waheed A. Bamigbade, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Nigeria The Antinomy of Exile: Ambivalence and Transnational Discontents in Tanure Ojaide's When It No Longer Matters Where You Live by Uzoechi Nwagbara, Greenwich School of Management, London, United Kingdom Nigeria and Japan: A Historical Analysis of Forty-Six Years of Relations, 1960-2006 by Adewole A. Adeleke, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria Victims and Couriers: Females and Hard Drugs Trafficking Business in Nigeria, 1980-2008 by Omon Merry Osiki, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing China Witchcraft, Culture, and Theology in African Development by Jim Harries, Kima International School of Theology, Maseno, Kenya Linguistic Representations of HIV/AIDS: The Yoruba Example by Olusanya E. Komolafe, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria