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Award-winning Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey talks to Steve Taylor about the history of Africa’s exploitation, the international community’s failure to recognise the climate debt owed to the Global South, and COP 27 (Photo: Tor Erik H. Mathiesen/AFP via Getty Images)
CLIMATE

United Nations COP27 is rigged, won’t help with climate change

Award-winning Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey talks to Steve Taylor about the history of Africa’s exploitation, the international community’s failure to recognise the…

  • Steve Taylor
9 min read
Lessons: The orature of Zulu poet DBZ Ntuli helped researchers collate oral environmental knowledge. (Universal History Archive/Getty)
BHEKINKOSI ZEBLON NTULI

Decolonising environmentalism and climate change

Indigenous oral cultures are teaching researchers that precolonial South Africans were aware of conservation

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
Richard Grove’s study of colonial networks, particularly in India and Australia, revealed the network of meteorological concerns and studies that would eventually bring the El Niño phenomenon to international attention.
AFRICA

Empire and environmentalism: The legacy of a brilliant maverick, Richard Grove

The prolific interdisciplinary scholar who worked on the periphery and challenged Eurocentrism also drew attention to the El Niño phenomenon and global warming concerns in…

  • Simon Pooley
6 min read
Still from ‘Planet of the Humans’
AFRICA IS A COUNTRY
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Review: ‘Planet of the Humans’ is a mess. You should watch it

The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.

  • Jordan G Teicher
5 min read