Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature
Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature
By Cajetan Iheka. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
The problem of environmental degradation on the African continent is a severe one. In Naturalizing Africa, Cajetan Iheka analyses how African literary texts have engaged with pressing ecological problems in Africa, including the Niger Delta oil pollution in Nigeria, ecologies of war in Somalia, and animal abuses. Analysing narratives by important African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Wangari Maathai, J. M. Coetzee, Bessie Head, and Ben Okri, Iheka ...