Saving African Nature by Guillaume Blanc, Helen Morrison - 9781509568680

Saving African NatureAn Ecological Mission and the Violence of History\nAuthor(s): Guillaume Blanc, Helen Morrison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Polity Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509568680, 978-1509568680\nSynopsis\nDuring the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa, convinced that they would find in Africa a nature that no longer existed in Europe. After independence, and with the help of UNESCO and the WWF, African leaders continued to 'protect' the same nature, a nature that the whole world wanted to be pristine, wild and without humans a timeless Garden of Eden. The consequences of this story are well known: millions of Africans were expelled from the land on which they had lived for generations.\n\nBut how did this happen? Who organized this continuity between the colonial era and the era of independence? Guillaume Blanc answers these questions by immersing himself at the heart of a strange global eco.