My primary objective in this article is to explore what new meaning borderlands research can bring to our understanding of globalization as it is presently framed in sociolinguistic scholarship. As a site of negotiations and transactions in international goods and services in the official and non-official realms they present us with a microcosm of globalised networks. The specific territoriality of a borderland illustrates localization which Waters (2001: 5) says implies ``a reflexive reconstruction of community in the face of the dehumanizing implications of rationalizing and commodifying'', a referencing against global scapes. I also present and explore continentalization as an African social process modeled on globalization by looking at the impact that Nollywood as a cultural industry is having across national boundaries.
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