The Mobile Workshop The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production

How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies. The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it...

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Main Author: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2018
Series:The MIT Press
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