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The Eurocentric definition of cruelty to animals informs the framing of the Kenyan law on the protection of cruelty to animals. However, Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s novella Terrorists of the Aberdare offers an animal narrative whose analysis provides data for engaging with the  Kenyan laws on the prevention of cruelties to animals in a post-independence phase of Kenya. The aim here is to invite decolonisation of normative understandings of endangerment as a condition for conservation. It is against such a backdrop that this presentation builds on the analysis of ways human labels to animal worsen becoming-endangered.

James Wachira is a PhD student at the Bayreuth Graduate School of African Studies. His PhD is on Kenyan eco-narratives’ engagement with logics on conservation in post-independence Kenya. He has authored “Animal Praise Poetry and the Samburu Desire to Survive” and “Wangari Maathai’s environmental Afrofuturist imaginary in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi”.

Chair: Martina Kopf