WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
For the few not the many
BOB NEWLAND recommends a book that challenges many erroneously held views on conservationism
INVASIVE: Awash National Park, Ethiopia
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
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Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
The Invention of Green Colonialism
by Guillaume Blanc
Polity £15.99
MANY Morning Star readers will be familiar with the oft repeated justification that colonialists simply took over and developed land that was unoccupied. To make this a reality required the wholesale expulsion of indigenous peoples from their land in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Africa.
Like many other progressives I have always considered the National Parks and their conservation agenda to be a good thing. This book challenges that idea.
Blanc’s study concentrates primarily on Africa especially Ethiopia. He argues that National Parks are based on the colonial era idea of “Eden” — an Africa consisting of vast forests and green spaces occupied by flora and fauna.
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