Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa | Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa

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Author: Thomas A. Bass
First Published: 1990
Type of Work: Science
Time of Work: 1985-1987
Setting: Sub-Saharan Africa
Principal Characters: Alison Brooks, Stephen Cobb, Kenneth Robert McKaye, Thomas Risley Odhiambo, Jeremy Swift, Ctewale Tomori
Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
Subjects: Culture, Africa or Africans, Politics, Colonialism, Colonies or colonization, Nature, Education or educators, Disasters, Natural disasters, Anthropology or anthropologists, Technology, Insects, Fishes, Research, Biology or biologists, Famines
Locales: Africa

The phrase “science in Africa” usually conjures up images of European or American scientists investigating the flora and fauna of the jungles or deserts of Africa, with Africans relegated to the status of laborers, or perhaps visions of anthropologists studying African tribes. Some aspect of an apparently alien Western science being practiced in Africa does appear in this book. The title is derived from a visit by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to Mali in his role as head of the World Wildlife Fund, with the resulting clash of cultures described in some detail. There are other...

Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa | Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa

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