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In January 2023, the Program on African Social Research convened a workshop at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Rabat, Morocco, to discuss the many possible meanings and forms of the politics of environmental change. A diverse, multidisciplinary group of almost a dozen early career scholars from across the continent participated in two days of discussions, searching for both commonalities and differences in the political experience of the environment. Their papers are collected here as a starting point in a broader cross African conversation, with the goal of centering African knowledge production and bringing the voices of emerging scholars from the continent into the conversation about environmental politics and climate change. These papers illuminate the ways these different meanings are constructed, as well as drawing out the political implications of the contestations over these divergent understandings.

Chapter 1:  

Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Africa

Adam Branch and Marc Lynch

Chapter 3:  

Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Amongst Small Holder Farmers in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region

Stanley Ebitare Boroh, PhD, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty Social Sciences, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Chapter 4:  

Rainmaking Rituals in the Era of Climate Change: A Spatial Approach

Amal Bourhrous, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Chapter 5:  

Media Discursive Practices and the Representation of Single-Use Plastics Ban in Malawi

Victor Chikaipa PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Malawi, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Chapter 6:  

Exploring the Interplay Between Climate Shocks and Household Welfare in Ethiopia

Kitessa Delessa (PhD Fellow in Economics), Department of Economics, Addis Ababa University

Chapter 7:  

Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation in Niger Delta Coastal Communities

Jackson Tamunosaki Jack, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Chapter 8:  

Resisting Degazetting of Forests and the Discourse of Development in Uganda

Muhamed Lunyago, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR)

Chapter 9:  

Water Resource Management and Climate Change in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo: The Case of the Ruzizi Plain

Bienfait Kazamwali Mukamba, Researcher, Groupe d’Etudes sur les Conflits et la Sécurité Humaine (GEC-SH) based at the Centre de Recherches Universitaires du Kivu (CERUKI) at the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique (ISP) of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Chapter 10:  

The Interplay Between the Sino-congolaise des Mines (Sicomines) and Climate Change

Nciko wa Nciko, LL. B, Strathmore University Law School; LL.M, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Chapter 11:  

Gender, Land Rights and Slow Onset Environmental Change in Morocco

Loubna Ou-Salah, University of Antwerp – Belgium

Chapter 12:  

Water Scarcity as a Threat Multiplier in the Lake Chad Basin

Eric Suyru, Ethics and Public Policies Laboratory of the Catholic University of Central Africa (EthicsLab), Cameroon

The Program on African Social Research aims to provide opportunities for feedback, networking, mentoring, and meaningful collaborative possibilities between junior scholars based in Africa and established scholars based both within and outside of the continent, especially those with diasporic and other ties to African countries. PASR is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is based at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York.

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