Radical Utu. Besi Brillian Muhonja
than nature. The humans could, therefore, manipulate and use their environment in any way that suited their interests. Maathai continually returned to African folktales to illustrate the fallacy of this way of thinking as well as the ills of depersonalizing human connections to natural resources. Such differentiation of entities in an environment breeds a lack of sensitivity to the interconnectedness of the various parts of that cosmos and its ecosystems. Through the colonial, Eurocentric lens, nature was viewed in terms of monetary potential. Trees, for example, simply became timber, and elephants were viewed as a source for ivory (Taking Root
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