1. Introduction: The intractable problem: Africa and the pitfalls of resource exploitation in a globalising world
2. Petitioning the future through environmental justice: A reading from Angola
3. African Goats, the State and conservation in colonial Zimbabwe, 1892 -1970s
4. The politics of exclusion and violence in protected areas
5. The politics of mining pollution in Zambia: Investigating 100 years of environmental management in the Copperbelt
6. "Aesthetics of the Earth": African Literature as a witness to postcolonial ecology
7. ‘One in heart as they are in tongue’: ‘Yoruba’, land and environmental violence in colonial southwestern Nigeria
8. A Revaluation of traditional ecological thoughts, knowledge and practices of the Aari of southern Ethiopia
9. Climate injustice: How it is affecting Africa
10. International environment law, the humanities nexus and some reflections on ‘creative legal solutions’ 11. Carbon dioxide, climate change, and an energy transition for a future Africa
12. Poetics and politics of resource exploitation in Africa: Insights from chapters