This inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary book contributes to our understanding of environmental issues in both urban and rural areas. From Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa to Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, the book provides a continental treatment of the environment in a number of new ways. Utilizing a variety of approaches, the contributors discuss the uses of land, land rights, food production, poverty, diseases, slums, climate change, technologies, science, the impact of external ideas, the intersections of the environment and culture, gender, and imperialism.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

TOYIN FALOLA teaches at the University of Austin. His related contributions are the co-edited volumes: Environment and Economics in Nigeria and Landscape and Environment in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. His most recent life-time awards include the Distinguished Africanist Award by the African Studies Association, the Africa and the African Diaspora Excellent Leadership Award by the Ibadan Cultural Group, and the Distinguished Africana Award by the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

MAURICE AMUTABI is an Associate Professor in Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, where he also serves as the Deputy Director of Research. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya, and co-author of Nationalism and Democracy for People-Centered Development in Africa and Foundations of Adult Education in Africa (Cape Town/Hamburg: Pearson/UNESCO, 2005). He has written two novels, Because of Honor (a novel on Islam in Africa) and These Good People (a novel on corruption in Africa), as well as  Nakhamuma Stories, a collection of short stories about the Abaluyia community of western Kenya.   

CATEGORY

History, Science and Technology/AFRICA