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Palm Wine, Railways and Gold
Technology and Empire in a West African Rainforest
Reihe: - Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, Band: 46
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Palm Wine, Railways, and Gold reinterprets the early 20th-century rainforest in southern Côte dâIvoire as a technological landscape. It examines the relationships among people, technology, nature, and empire, set against environmental constraints and imperial ambition. Challenging plantation-centred narratives, it reconstructs forest economies before oil palm and banana monocultures, highlighting the economic and cultural centrality of palm wine and kola nuts.
It re-conceptualises the AbidjanâNiger Railway as fragile infrastructure requiring constant maintenance and repair, and links river-based gold mining to regional trade networks. Through everyday encounters, David Drengk foregrounds forest dwellers and their persisting contestation and negotiation of French colonial rule in West Africa.
It re-conceptualises the AbidjanâNiger Railway as fragile infrastructure requiring constant maintenance and repair, and links river-based gold mining to regional trade networks. Through everyday encounters, David Drengk foregrounds forest dwellers and their persisting contestation and negotiation of French colonial rule in West Africa.
David Drengk is an Africanist historian at Ruhr University Bochum. He has published on palm wine, surfing, firearms, bicycles, and railway maintenance and repair in Africa.
This book targets historians and students from different fields like colonial history, history of technology, environmental history or Africanist history who are interested in technology in African regions during the long 20th century.