In Loliondo, Maasai village lands have been leased to a United Arab Emirates-based company for trophy hunting, triggering forceful evictions. Tens of thousands more Maasai now face eviction from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for the interests of wildlife tourism. 3/3
Urgent and essential reading by @SianSullivanUK. UK politicians are right now opposing banning trophy hunting claiming it can "help fund conservation". But @SianSullivanUK shows how this& wildlife tourism impoverish and displace rural Africans from their lands and livelihoods 1/3
Benefits are concentrated upwards to elites; most local people, already poor, gain little and lose much more. @SianSullivanUK's forensic analysis for Namibia is true for Tanzania too. Tens of thousands of people are at this moment being evicted from their villages and lands. 2/3
Thanks @biosec_erc for highlighting this. At this very moment the Tanzanian state is using just such Malthusian arguments to try and remove 80,000 pastoralists from Ngorongoro, and 40,000 from Loliondo - see links and scientists' open letter in thread below
1/ This has to be one of the absolute worst takes on conservation- using a Malthusian framing about population growth *without* engaging with the global dynamics of capitalism & consumption patterns of the wealthy that sustain inequality is utterly inexcusable @RachelNuwer
'Prosperity in Rural Africa?' is out! Edited with the amazing @Christi36159665, this is the result of years of longitudinal research in rural Tanzania in multiple sites. A free pdf of the whole book (downloaded >1000 times over the launch w/e :) is here https://t.co/2hvJ5mrjyh /8
“Dispossession is nine tenths of the law” - This year's British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) annual lecture will be given by Ambreena Manji - online at 5pm BST on Wednesday 3rd November. Register here:
Really thrilled to be promoted to Associate Professor. What a brilliant group of women to be promoted with @UCLanthropology !! With thanks to the inspirational and massively supportive @KMHomewood. Big up the women!
Huge congratulations - so good to see proper recognition at last for such a modest and dedicated colleague inspiring and supporting students and old-timers like myself year after year