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Historically, works of literature that focus on the environment have often focused on the impacts of environmental degradation, oil pollution, natural disasters, and desert encroachment from the human perspective, with little to no account of the effects of these disasters on other biotic components of the environment. Through this crucial contribution, Iheka emphasizes the need to explore and appreciate the complex relationship that exists or that should exist between human and nonhuman elements of the ecosystem. In investigating, problematizing, complicating, and analyzing the relationship between humans and nonhuman agents as represented in African literature, Iheka hopes to “extend the domain of African literary studies from one primarily focused on humans to one that explores the complexities of human-nonhuman relations in the different sites under consideration; rethink the dominant notion of agency based on intentionality and propose ways of conceiving distributed agency or varieties of agency functioning between human beings and other environmental actors” (3). Considering the paucity of scholarship on the effects of environmental degradation on nonhuman components, Iheka’s book is a welcome and timely intervention and contribution to that discourse. Written partly in response toNeil Lazarus’s call inThe Postcolonial Unconscious for a postcolonial study that aligns with relevant contemporary issues, including questions of land, geography, and the environment, Iheka references and expands on different theories from a variety of disciplines. He not only highlights the human effects of environmental degradation but also examines the nonhuman factors—effects on plants, animals, forests, soil, and water—and their interrelationships as a complex whole. 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