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African Literature, Ecological Interconnections, Theoretical Entanglements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2019

Cajetan Iheka
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 300 - 304
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14 The recuperation of ecological thought from indigenous cosmologies is emphasized in other works such as Evan Mwangi’s The Postcolonial Animal (2019).