Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa

1. Chimpanzees in the colonial maelstrom : struggles over knowledge, race and commodities in the Gabonese primate trade, c. 1850-1940 / Jeremy Rich -- 2. Appraising nature : pastoralist practice, hunting logics and landscape ideology in colonial Southern Africa / Laura J. Mitchell -- 3. The railway in colonial East Africa : colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology / Christiane Reichart-Burikukiye -- 4. Science, technology and the African woman during (British) colonization, 1916-1960 : the case of Bamenda Province / Bridget A. Teboh -- 5. Western biomedicine and colonialism : the Church Missionary Society medical mission in the Lake Victoria Basin / Hannington Ochwada -- 6. The price of 'modernity'? : Western railroad technology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- 7. Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi / Erik Green -- 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons : innovations in grazing and environmental control 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- 9. The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation in Africa : the case of the Abaluyia of western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi -- 10. Managerial technologies, [i]legal livelihoods and the forgotten consumers of Africa's largest freshwater fishery / Jennifer Lee Johnson -- 11. Fictionalizing the crisis of the environment in Ben Okri's The famished road and Songs of enchantment / Kayode O. Ogunfolabi -- 12. Health transitions and environmental change in contemporary Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen -- 13. Growing a global green economy : getting Africa prepared to lend a hand / Rubin Patterson.