Landscaping Africa

“In this profound and urgent contribution, Michael C. Lambert places African studies and Indigenous studies into generative conversation around the rhetorics, relations, and politics of land and belonging in West Africa and other colonized regions. Landscaping Africa is essential reading for scholars in both disciplines and offers a purposeful grounding for shared intellectual and political concern.”—Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English, University of British Columbia

"Examines the transformative impact of European colonialism on African Indigenous conceptions of land, territoriality, and spatial boundaries. Drawing upon the author’s engagement with Native American communities in the United States, to which he belongs, his service as a Peace Corps volunteer along the Mauritania-Senegal border, and his scholarly research on internal migration in southern Senegal, the book interrogates the complex dynamics through which colonial regimes appropriated, reconfigured, and redistributed land. In doing so, it illuminates the enduring consequences of these interventions for African societies, with particular attention to the Senegalese context."—Mamarame Seck, PhD, Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire and University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar