Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Landscapes, environments and technology : looking out , looking back / Emily Brownell and Toyin Falola -- Chimpanzees in the colonial maelstrom : struggles over knowledge, race, and commodities in the Gabonese primate trade, c. 1850-1940 / Jeremy Rich -- Appraising n ature : pastoralist practice, hunting logics, and landscape ideology in colonial Southern Africa / Laura J. Mitchell -- The railway in colonia l East Africa : colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology / Christiane Reichart -- Science, technology and the Africa n woman during (British) colonization, 1916-1960 : the case of Bamenda Province / Bridget A. Teboh -- Western biomedicine and colonialism : th e Church Missionary Society medical mission in the Lake Victoria Basin / Hannington Ochwada -- The price of "modernity"? : Western railroad te chnology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in coloni al Malawi / Erik Green -- Cattle in British Southern Cameroons : innova tions in grazing and environmental control 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation in A frica : the case of the Abaluyia of western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi -- Managerial technologies, [il]legal livelihoods and the forgotten consum ers of Africa's largest freshwater fishery / Jennifer Lee Johnson -- Fi ctionalizing the crisis of the environment in Ben Okri's The famished r oad and Songs of enchantment / Kayode O. Ogunfolabi -- Health transitio ns and environmental change in contemporary Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobse n -- Growing a global green economy : getting Africa prepared to lend a hand / Rubin Patterson -- Conclusion : environmental crisis and develo pment / Emily Brownell.