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Shea Parklands Face Various Threats – Can Archaeobotany Help Preserve Them? (by Alexa Höhn and Peter Lovett)

Traditional forms of land use in West Africa often include the integration of useful indigenous trees into the farmscapes. Economically and culturally, the shea tree is the most important among them. The collection of...

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African Worlds Have Been More-than-human Worlds avant la lettre: Relational Ontologies and the Decolonisation of Nature in Africa

Scholarship on the environmental history of Africa largely demonstrates that European colonial rule involved exercising power over nature. Moreover, as many scholars have suggested, power over nature was a key tool in colonial rule.1...

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What Does Mine Closure Mean? Some Insights from West Africa (Authors: Diana Ayeh and Tongnoma Zongo)

Owing to its mineral abundance, West Africa’s subsoil has increasingly attracted both large-scale investors and small-scale miners in recent decades. This situation has not only led to the mushrooming of new mining projects but...

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Policy Conferences: Sustainable Economic Transformation and Shared Prosperity in Africa

Which role are rural transformations playing for Africa’s economic transformation? What are the driving forces for Africa’s economic transformation? And how shared prosperity and sustainability can be achieved in practice? Africa’s economic development is...