Is there a green colonialism?

Audio 48:30

"The invention of green colonialism", by Guillaume Blanc.

Flammarion editions

By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 min

Environmental historian Guillaume Blanc shakes the coconut palm out of our good ecological conscience ... to put an end to the myth of African Eden.

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Let us shake the coconut palm from our good ecological conscience by questioning the environmental protection policies at work on the continent.

Since the end of the XIXth century and the creation of the first African natural parks to "save" a necessarily virgin and wild nature of these inhabitants, it is always the same logic which continues.

A century and thousands of expulsions later, can we speak of a green colonialist or the new green clothes of colonialism?

With

(environmental historian, specialist in contemporary Africa) for his book

published by Flammarion.

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