"Using diverse archival sources and offering rare attention to overlooked voices, Saving African Nature traces how experts, states, and rural communities shaped conservation in East Africa. It provides a powerful, multi-pronged analysis of the enduring power imbalances behind the region's purportedly pristine places." Raf de Bont, Maastritcht University
"In Saving African Nature, Blanc exhaustively records the elitism, Malthusianism, and control that underlie the conservation mission in Africa. In stunning detail, he reveals the roots of this persistent violence in the unshakable period of its earliest development. The research is meticulous, the storytelling, artful, and the conclusions, profound and disturbing." Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Guillaume Blanc offers a comprehensive micro-history of African environmentalism, giving a voice to each of the actors involved In this he succeeds: his approach provides a better understanding of the politics of nature in Africa and helps us to make sense of what this postcolonial moment is all about." L'Histoire
"Guillaume Blanc shows how African nature has been and remains the subject of a myth, that of a universal and timeless Eden a myth that has been reinforced by colonization, expulsion and exclusion." Ballast
