In “Postcolonial Nature,” Philip Aghoghovwia emphasizes nature’s historicity and cultural relativity, as well as its complicity in Euro-American neocolonial activities such as land grabbing, natural resource extraction, and conservation that expels or marginalizes human populations. However, Aghoghovwia also demonstrates how African writers like the Nigerian activist-poet Nnimmo Bassey and the South African author Etienne van Heerden evoke alternative ideas of nature in order to resist the destruction of local environments and people. Aghoghovwia situates his critique of colonial nature within a detailed exploration of the postcolonial theory of Ramachandra Guha, Rob Nixon, Byron Caminero-Santangelo, and Cajetan Iheka.