This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political struggles in post-colonial Africa. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the environmental humanities and environmental studies.

James Ogude is the Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Tafadzwa Mushonga is a research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

1. Introduction: The intractable problem: Africa and the pitfalls of resource exploitation in a globalising world 2. Petitioning the future through environmental justice: A reading from Angola 3. African Goats, the State and conservation in colonial Zimbabwe, 1892 -1970s 4. The politics of exclusion and violence in protected areas 5. The politics of mining pollution in Zambia: Investigating 100 years of environmental management in the Copperbelt 6. "Aesthetics of the Earth": African Literature as a witness to postcolonial ecology 7. 'One in heart as they are in tongue': 'Yoruba', land and environmental violence in colonial southwestern Nigeria 8. A Revaluation of traditional ecological thoughts, knowledge and practices of the Aari of southern Ethiopia 9. Climate injustice: How it is affecting Africa 10. International environment law, the humanities nexus and some reflections on 'creative legal solutions' 11. Carbon dioxide, climate change, and an energy transition for a future Africa 12. Poetics and politics of resource exploitation in Africa: Insights from chapters