Residents, labor migrants, hunters, and workers traversed the park. He builds on Carruthers’s work to show that African communities continued to live in Kruger long after it became a reserved area and of course provided the labor necessary to create the space. Rather it complements the work of Jane Carruthers’s Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History (1995) and others by exploring the ways that blacks in South Africa from all the communities under that designation negotiated their relationships in, around, and outside the park under white rule.ĭlamini’s first target is the notion that Kruger was exclusively a white playground. The work is not a straightforward environmental history of the park. He reviews the literature on hunting and poaching in and around the park. He explores the history of black travel and leisure in twentieth-century South Africa. He includes an overview of black environmental thought both in South Africa and in other parts of the continent. He reviews the history of black communities in and around the park. He examines the place of Kruger National Park and wildlife conservation in black South African thought. In doing so, he shortchanges the breadth of the work. Jacob S. T. Dlamini bills his book as a “social history” of the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)Įnvironmental History as Intellectual History Maddox (Texas Southern University)Ĭommissioned by David D. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park.
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