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“Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Traditions is the first and most comprehensive account of the cultural renaissance that has taken place in Eastern Africa in the last few decades. Focusing on a multiplicity of forms of cultural expression and covering a wide range of intellectual traditions, this book is a testimony to the Eastern African genius. This book is indispensible to understanding the cultural geography of the region.”

-Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University, Editor PMLA.

This inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary book contributes to our understanding of environmental issues in both urban and rural areas. From Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa to Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa, the book provides a continental treatment of the environment in a number of new ways. Utilizing a variety of approaches, the contributors discuss the uses of land, land rights, food production, poverty, diseases, slums, climate change, technologies, science, the impact of external ideas, the intersections of the environment and culture, gender, and imperialism.

Côte d’Ivoire The Conundrum of a Still Wretched of the Earth explores the internal complexities and the context of the controversial international engagement in the Ivorian crisis.  Bold formulations emerge on the structure of the post-colonial state and its immediate external environment. The environment is populated by unlike units: formal states, proto states, and transnational communities struggle for control. This complex environment is described as “intermestic”. The intermestic environment drives the search for the total appropriation of the space by competing constituent groups and their transnational allies. Intermesticity explains the propensity of internal conflicts to engulf whole sub regions.