ABSTRACT
Using feminist scholars such as Wangari Maathai, Pala Achola, Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies, Ariel Salleh, Mary Mellor and others to explore the place of women in the debates that buffet environmentalism, this chapter presents a post/decolonial feminist take on the problem. It argues that there is a real need to study and even recover the relationship of certain special populations (such as women) with our environment if we are to begin to understand and address the issues raised by our environmental crisis. This is especially important on the African continent where women's voices continue to require amplification as well as locational empathy and ingress. People should engage with the major debates of our time in Africa on women and the environment, such as those on deforestation and forestation, Genetically Modified Organisms, and others. It is from here that we must vocalize alterity.
