Mathew Bukhi Mabele

Writes about biodiversity conservation, climate change, environmental justice and epistemic disobedience to Euro-American centricity in tropical ecosystems

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Finally, I got the book! Thank you @YolandaAriadne @JessCHope and @EliaApos for the invitation and leading this wonderful book.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

My dear fellow sons and daughters of Mungu, I promise you that "tourism" is a false god that brings you no prosperity. It a fake pseudo-industry that creates next to no actual wealth for the people and places it exploits, and reduces the value of said people to mere trinkets and experiences.

The worst part about this video is that the only time it shows any black people is only where they are an aesthetic backdrop to the "magical experience" being advertised. The subconscious message being passed is that all of Kenya and its 99% black population are just a temporary experience for rich white people to enjoy.

You can draw a straight line from messaging like this to the existence of large numbers of abandoned mixed race children in Kenya. Everything there - including the buxom damsels - is meant to be a "magical experience" after all, and magical experiences never last long.

For the love of God, leave tourism alone and build factories, power stations, factories and more factories like every other nation that escaped poverty has done. Give Kenyans access to real productive power and wealth, and stop advertising these beautiful African people as aesthetic landmarks and busty bed warmers to muzungus who are having their post-divorce midlife crisis.🤦🏿‍♂️

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

'The nature of spectacle'

[visitngorongoro @visitngorongoro]

Not just a safari, a journey through the *Birth of Wonders*.

Ride across the plains and witness life unfold.
#wondersarecalling #experiencethewonders #destinationngorongoro #visitngorongoro #horseriding

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Shout out to @danstan_mukono @KiwangoWilly and Judith Krauss for the great collaborations while working on the chapters.

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Finally, I got the book! Thank you @YolandaAriadne @JessCHope and @EliaApos for the invitation and leading this wonderful book.

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Finally, I got the book! Thank you @YolandaAriadne @JessCHope and @EliaApos for the invitation and leading this wonderful book.

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Check out chapters number 11 and 15 for things about #politicalecology #decoloniality #Conservation #carbonforestry

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Finally, I got the book! Thank you @YolandaAriadne @JessCHope and @EliaApos for the invitation and leading this wonderful book.

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

https://t.co/vvauokJCGl names of places and species in natural landscapes shouldn't follow colonial logics

[Andrew Julian Mahiga @Drudysseus]

Can we rename the Gombe National Park to the Jane Goodall National Park?

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Our MAARIFA Research Project website is now online. Stay tuned for insights about digital citizen science technologies and their potential to transform knowledge systems in tropical landscape monitoring https://t.co/EXm8IojpB4

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

@esulle46 Inastaajabisha aisee!

[Wako Joel @WakoJoel]

Indigenous-led conservation isn’t just ethical—it works, hencw decolonising environmental protection by centering local knowledge, values & stewardship. It’s time to move beyond top-down models & return to what sustains ecosystems🌿 #DecolonizeConservation
https://t.co/B5QXoPo520

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

😵‍💫😵‍💫

[African @ali_naka]

Meanwhile in Kenya

[African @ali_naka]

Meanwhile in Kenya

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Tevez

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Learn to embrace rejections - part of this game!

[CoCo🍫 @YourFrenchFry]

Another publication rejection. Au labda sina akili 😭😭😭 siandiki tena.

[CoCo🍫 @YourFrenchFry]

Another publication rejection. Au labda sina akili 😭😭😭 siandiki tena.

[Godfrey Massay @GEMASSAY]

The Maasai Strife Against Green Grabbing in Tanzania https://t.co/4hZoW37AA6 via @withemes

[Laura Pipolo (Terzani) @L_PipoloTerzani]

India’s colonial conservation uproots Indigenous communities who've coexisted with wildlife for generations, turning forests into constructed ‘wild’ tourist spectacles for profit.

Read "Eating the Adivasis along with the Tiger"
by @social_mimic @alt_anthro - published @UndiEnvi

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Call for a female ECR interested in a PostDoc position at the Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Leuphana University, under the Humboldt Research Fellowship Program. The position is for a non-German ECR whose PhD is from a non-German institution. https://t.co/QtjhQ6t8xg

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

Call for a Tanzanian PhD student to research sustainability transformations within Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystem. https://t.co/hq9jsVOsg3

[Mathew Bukhi Mabele @MBMabele]

@TeklehaymanotG Hongera kaka!