This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources.
This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this...
A worthy addition to the growing corpus of postcolonial ecocriticism. Postcolonial Text
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays examine how geographers, anthropologists, and historians make use of literature and how they apply theories and ideas drawn from their respective fields in the study of both African and colonial...
A worthy addition to the growing corpus of postcolonial ecocriticism. Postcolonial Text
