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

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.