Book review: To Cook a Continent, by Nnimmo Bassey

I’ve been searching around recently for books on climate change written by African writers – let me know if you’ve got any recommendations. Here’s one I came across: To Cook a Continent: Destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa, published in 2012. It’s by Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian writer, poet, activist and the chair of Friends of the Earth International.

The book demonstrates how Africa suffers in both the short and the long term from fossil fuels – first by the destruction of th...