Mshenga Mwacharo

For a century, conservation science dismissed Africa’s indigenous ecological knowledge as folklore and paid a measurable ecological price for doing so. Unasked makes the reckoning impossible to avoid. Across eleven wide-ranging essays, Mshenga Mwacharo moves from the sacred groves of Limpopo to the coral reefs of the Western Indian Ocean, building an urgent case that Africa’s richest conservation knowledge was never irrelevant. It was simply never sought.