F. Fiona Moolla is a Senior Lecturer and the Graduate Coordinator in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South AfricaByron Caminero-Santangelo is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas. Sule Emmanuel Egya is Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Arts and Indigenous Studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.Jonathan Bishop Highfield is Professor of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design.

• ForewordChapter 1: “Here is some baobab leaf!”: Sunjata, foodways and biopiracyChapter 2: Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songsChapter 3: The environment as significant Other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religionChapter 4: Animal praise poetry and the Samburu desire to surviveChapter 5: Voluntourism paradoxes: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websitesChapter 6: Toward ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature Chapter 7: Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen CentsChapter 8: Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature and culture in Borderline by William DiceyChapter 9: Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila’s Oil on WaterChapter 10: Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou’s Memoirs of a PorcupineChapter 11: Nature, animism and humanity in Anglophone Nigerian poetryChapter 12: Animals, nostalgia, and Zimbabwe’s rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura ZimunyaAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgementsNotes

F. Fiona Moolla is a Senior Lecturer and the Graduate Coordinator in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South AfricaByron Caminero-Santangelo is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas. Sule Emmanuel Egya is Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Arts and Indigenous Studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.Jonathan Bishop Highfield is Professor of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design.

• ForewordChapter 1: “Here is some baobab leaf!”: Sunjata, foodways and biopiracyChapter 2: Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songsChapter 3: The environment as significant Other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religionChapter 4: Animal praise poetry and the Samburu desire to surviveChapter 5: Voluntourism paradoxes: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websitesChapter 6: Toward ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature Chapter 7: Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen CentsChapter 8: Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature and culture in Borderline by William DiceyChapter 9: Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila’s Oil on WaterChapter 10: Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou’s Memoirs of a PorcupineChapter 11: Nature, animism and humanity in Anglophone Nigerian poetryChapter 12: Animals, nostalgia, and Zimbabwe’s rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura ZimunyaAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgementsNotes

F. Fiona Moolla is a Senior Lecturer and the Graduate Coordinator in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South AfricaByron Caminero-Santangelo is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas. Sule Emmanuel Egya is Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Arts and Indigenous Studies at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.Jonathan Bishop Highfield is Professor of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design.

• ForewordChapter 1: “Here is some baobab leaf!”: Sunjata, foodways and biopiracyChapter 2: Shona as a land-based nature-culture: A study of the (re)construction of Shona land mythology in popular songsChapter 3: The environment as significant Other: The green nature of Shona indigenous religionChapter 4: Animal praise poetry and the Samburu desire to surviveChapter 5: Voluntourism paradoxes: Strategic visual tropes of the natural on South African voluntourism websitesChapter 6: Toward ecocriticism in Africa: Literary aesthetics in African environmental literature Chapter 7: Critical intersections: Ecocriticism, globalised cities and African narrative, with a focus on K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen CentsChapter 8: Navigating Gariep country: Writing nature and culture in Borderline by William DiceyChapter 9: Negotiating identity in a vanishing geography: Home, environment and displacement in Helon Habila’s Oil on WaterChapter 10: Animal narrators in Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle and Alain Mabanckou’s Memoirs of a PorcupineChapter 11: Nature, animism and humanity in Anglophone Nigerian poetryChapter 12: Animals, nostalgia, and Zimbabwe’s rural landscape in the poetry of Chenjerai Hove and Musaemura ZimunyaAbout the AuthorsAcknowledgementsNotes