Defining ecocide: a framework for centring the African experience
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- Rosemary Mwanza · Felix Dube · Michael Addaney
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- 2026
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- en
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- article
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- 2026-11-14T02:39:10.878912+00:00
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Kabarak University · University of Venda · University of Energy and Natural Resources
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GH · KE · ZA
Documentary abstract — original language
This article argues that prevailing efforts to define ecocide, while advancing an important agenda for international criminal accountability, remain insufficiently attentive to the historical and structural conditions that produce serious environmental harm in many African contexts. Existing proposals tend to isolate discrete acts of environmental destruction and evaluate them through narrow thresholds of intent and damage, often abstracted from the transnational political economies and colonial legacies that enable such conduct. Drawing on insights from critical ecocide scholarship, decolonial legal studies and political economy, the article proposes a framework that centres the African experience as a guide for conceptualising ecocide and for designing mechanisms to enforce it. The Niger Delta pollution crisis is examined as an illustrative case demonstrating how corporate power, state regulation and global capital interact to produce systemic environmental harm. The article concludes that meaningful efforts to define and enforce ecocide must incorporate these structural dynamics if international law is to adequately address the realities of environmental destruction in Africa.
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- https://openalex.org/W7138903288
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- 10.1080/13642987.2026.2642183
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- Routledge
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Rosemary Mwanza; Felix Dube; Michael Addaney. Defining ecocide: a framework for centring the African experience. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2026.2642183
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- Rosemary Mwanza; Felix Dube; Michael Addaney. (2026). Defining ecocide: a framework for centring the African experience. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2026.2642183
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- Rosemary Mwanza; Felix Dube; Michael Addaney. Defining ecocide: a framework for centring the African experience. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2026.2642183
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- Rosemary Mwanza; Felix Dube; Michael Addaney. Defining ecocide: a framework for centring the African experience. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2026.2642183
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