Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa: Poetics and Politics of Exploitation

This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa. The continent is host to a myriad of environmental issues, largely resulting from its rich diversity of natural resources that have been historically subjected to exploitation.

Colonial patterns of resource use and capital accumulation continue unabated, making environmental and related socio-political problems a dominant feature of Afri...