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5.1. The Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Corridor in the Zambezi region [Cartography R. Spohner]

5.2. The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) [Cartography R. Spohner]

6.1. Map of the study area and the case study sites. [Authors’ illustration based on Cordaid et al. 2016; Klagge et al. 2020; LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority 2016, 2020]

7.1. Protected Areas on the African continent [Cartography: H. P. Vehrs]

8.1. Location of Study Area in Northern Kenya

8.2 (a) MAM Rainfall Amount and (b) OND Rainfall Amount Seasonal Spatial Distribution of Rainfall in Millimetres (mm) [Cartography: M. Feinen]

9.1. The two black points for Kako (Masaka) on the upper right, and Kakoma (Kyotera) on the lower left, in Uganda [Cartography: M. Feinen]

10.1. Location of Kiserian in Kenya’s Baringo County [Carthography M. Feinen]

11.1. Insurance area unit boundaries in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya [Cartography: J. Hall]

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African Futures in the Making

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What lies ahead for rural Africa, given a rapidly increasing population, climate change, poverty, inequality and projections of an increasing vulnerability to natural hazards and food shortages?

Bringing together scholars in ecology, agriculture, economics, human geography and cultural anthropology, from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK, this book focusses on social-ecological transformation and future-making in rural Africa, especially in areas of rapid land-use change following the establishment of development corridors, conservation areas, and large-scale infrastructure projects. In Africa, discussions on the way forward are particularly conflict-ridden because people do not agree about desirable goals, because the gap between winners and losers seems to be bigger than elsewhere, and because the struggle for desirable futures is embedded in a problematic history of foreign domination and exploitation.

Focussing on eastern and southern Africa, topics examined range from the history of conservation initiatives and wildlife protection to visions of green development, from the gender implications of extreme climate events on pastoral economies to the use of information and communication technologies on farms and mobile money in geographically remote territories, from large-scale energy infrastructure projects and growth corridors to local ways of managing risk. The volume opens with reflections on African utopic registers of the future and conceptual decolonization in African futurity.

Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the collaborative research center "Future Rural Africa", funding code TRR 228/3.

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Detlef Müller-Mahn#Michael Bollig

PublisherJames Currey

Print publication date Jan, 2026

Print ISBN 9781847014221

EISBN 9781847014863

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