Chongololo : The Zambian Children's Wildlife Magazine and the Making of an African Environmental Movement.
Created in 1972, the Chongololo magazine and wildlife clubs in Zambia broke with earlier examples of conservation advocacy and thought in the southern African nation. Under colonialism, racially exclusive, civil-society conservation activism focused on protecting charismatic megafauna in distant nat...
| Published in: | Journal of Social History Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 712 - 734 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2026
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