This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of
colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These
two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both
are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African
environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their
own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and
technology. "Landscape" defines the category of knowledge produced
by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the
scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out
these categories and explore their creation and how they have been
deployed to shape colonial and postcolonial discourses on Africa,
this volume investigates the "technological pastoral," the points
of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral
Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific
ideas and commodification of land and animals.
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