Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial studies, and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486Deirdre C. Byrne is the Director of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), a practising poet, and a Professor of English Studies at the University of South Africa. She has published research on decolonizing poetry in education in South Africa in Education as Change and has published on black and white decolonial feminisms in The International Journal of Women’s Studies. She has published ecofeminist readings of speculative fiction in Extrapolation and a forthcoming article on trees as memory repositories in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in The Lion and the Unicorn.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-6632

• Introduction: Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature 1. Ecology and Decoloniality: Reading the Natural World in Twentieth-Century African Literature 2. Unfathomable Depths: “Deep Into Sacred Terrain” in Sir Ben Okri’s “The Secret Source” from Tiger Work (2023) 3. Re-enchanted Bodies of Water: Towards a Decolonial Tidalectics in Recent African Fiction and Performance 4. An Eco-Decolonial Narrative: Toward a Dividual Self and Slow Wit(h)nessing in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea 5. The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry 6. Voices From the Fringes: The Eco-Poetics of Niger Delta Women 7. On the Politics of Making Life in the Ruins of Empire: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities 8. Rekindling Eco-Ubuntu in Sicelo Mbatha’s Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness 9. “Knowledge Born in the Struggle”: Activism, Decolonial Ecology, and Sustainability in Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed: A Memoir

Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial studies, and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486Deirdre C. Byrne is the Director of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), a practising poet, and a Professor of English Studies at the University of South Africa. She has published research on decolonizing poetry in education in South Africa in Education as Change and has published on black and white decolonial feminisms in The International Journal of Women’s Studies. She has published ecofeminist readings of speculative fiction in Extrapolation and a forthcoming article on trees as memory repositories in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in The Lion and the Unicorn.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-6632

• Introduction: Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature 1. Ecology and Decoloniality: Reading the Natural World in Twentieth-Century African Literature 2. Unfathomable Depths: “Deep Into Sacred Terrain” in Sir Ben Okri’s “The Secret Source” from Tiger Work (2023) 3. Re-enchanted Bodies of Water: Towards a Decolonial Tidalectics in Recent African Fiction and Performance 4. An Eco-Decolonial Narrative: Toward a Dividual Self and Slow Wit(h)nessing in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea 5. The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry 6. Voices From the Fringes: The Eco-Poetics of Niger Delta Women 7. On the Politics of Making Life in the Ruins of Empire: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities 8. Rekindling Eco-Ubuntu in Sicelo Mbatha’s Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness 9. “Knowledge Born in the Struggle”: Activism, Decolonial Ecology, and Sustainability in Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed: A Memoir

Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad in India, with affiliations at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durban University of Technology, South Africa. He has received prestigious fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt and National Research Foundation awards. His research spans Global South literature, postcolonial studies, and environmental humanities. Karmakar edits the journal Global South Literary Studies and the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9119-9486Deirdre C. Byrne is the Director of ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), a practising poet, and a Professor of English Studies at the University of South Africa. She has published research on decolonizing poetry in education in South Africa in Education as Change and has published on black and white decolonial feminisms in The International Journal of Women’s Studies. She has published ecofeminist readings of speculative fiction in Extrapolation and a forthcoming article on trees as memory repositories in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in The Lion and the Unicorn.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4436-6632

• Introduction: Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature 1. Ecology and Decoloniality: Reading the Natural World in Twentieth-Century African Literature 2. Unfathomable Depths: “Deep Into Sacred Terrain” in Sir Ben Okri’s “The Secret Source” from Tiger Work (2023) 3. Re-enchanted Bodies of Water: Towards a Decolonial Tidalectics in Recent African Fiction and Performance 4. An Eco-Decolonial Narrative: Toward a Dividual Self and Slow Wit(h)nessing in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea 5. The Weeping Earth: Entangled Humanism, Precarity, and Imaginaries in African Eco-Poetry 6. Voices From the Fringes: The Eco-Poetics of Niger Delta Women 7. On the Politics of Making Life in the Ruins of Empire: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water and Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities 8. Rekindling Eco-Ubuntu in Sicelo Mbatha’s Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness 9. “Knowledge Born in the Struggle”: Activism, Decolonial Ecology, and Sustainability in Wangari Maathai’s Unbowed: A Memoir