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Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture, showing how African visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture deliver a unique perspective on the socio-ecological costs of media production.
List of contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Waste Reconsidered: Afrofuturism, Technologies of the Past, and the History of the Future 25
2. Spatial Networks, Toxic Ecoscapes, and (In)visible Labor 64
3. Ecologies of Oil and Uranium: Extractive Energy and the Trauma of the Future 108
4. Human Meets Animal, Africa Meets Diaspora: The Conjunctions of Cecil the Lion and Black Lives Matter 152
5. African Urban Ecologies: Transcriptions of Precarity, Creativity, and Futurity 186
Epilogue. Toward Imperfect Media 221
Notes 231
Bibliography 273
Index 305
About the author
Cajetan Iheka is Associate Professor of English at Yale University, author of
Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature, editor of
Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media, and coeditor of
African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space.
