Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa
Subtitle: An Environmental History
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781441155405
Subjects: Rivers; Africa, history
Description: How did rivers contribute to the economic and political development of modern Africa? How did African and European notions of nature's value and meaning differ? And how have these evaluations of Africa's rivers changed between 1850 and the present day? Drawing upon examples from across the African continent, Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa explores the role African waterways played in the continent's economic, social, and political development and provides the first historical study of the key themes in African river history.