Shaping the African Savannah

The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an ''Arid Eden'' in recent literature, as one of Africa''s most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a ''last frontier'' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia''s Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how thi...