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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262345859
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it carries and transmits into cattle and people as it bites them, leading to n'gana (animal trypanosomiasis) and sleeping sickness. In The Mobile Workshop , Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. He traces the pestiferous work that an indefatigable, mobile insect does through its movements, and the work done by humans to control it. Mavhunga's account restores the central role not just of African labor but of African intellect in the production of knowledge about the tsetse fly. He describes how European colonizers built on and beyond this knowledge toward destructive and toxic methods, including cutting down entire forests, forced “prophylactic” resettlement, massive destruction of wild animals, and extensive spraying of organochlorine pesticides. Throughout, Mavhunga uses African terms to describe the African experience, taking vernacular concepts as starting points in writing a narrative of ruzivo (knowledge) rather than viewing Africa through foreign keywords. The tsetse fly became a site of knowledge production—a mobile workshop of pestilence.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0023
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262345859
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 June 2018
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10492.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262345859