‘I Wish I Had More Time to Write for Leisure’ Aby Sène’s First Draft
Senegalese academic and author, Aby Sène, believes pan-Africanism should not be presented in an alienating way.
Aby L. Sène
Against Wildlife Republics Conservation and Imperialist Expansion in Africa
In 1972, pan-Africanist and Marxist thinker from Guyana, Walter Rodney, warned of ‘Wildlife Republics’, calling attention to wildlife conservation in Africa as a new form of imperialist and capitalist exploitation. Today, conservation is still a pretext to dispossess local communities for imperialist expansion and capitalist development.
Aby L. Sène
is a public scholar writing on biodiversity conservation issues in Africa. Sène is also a faculty at Clemson University, with research interest in conservation and Black cultural landscapes in Africa and the US.