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

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.🤦🏿‍♂️

'The nature of spectacle'

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

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

doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-0… names of places and species in natural landscapes shouldn't follow colonial logics

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 maarifa.udom.ac.tz/#

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 hakaimagazine.com/news/how-t…

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Meanwhile in Kenya

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Learn to embrace rejections - part of this game!

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

The Maasai Strife Against Green Grabbing in Tanzania thecontrapuntal.com/the-maas… via @withemes

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

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. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…

Call for a Tanzanian PhD student to research sustainability transformations within Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystem. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aai…

Glad to share my recent paper: Revealing REDD through intersectionality from below: an exploration of everyday subjectivities in rural southern Tanzania: Local Environment: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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