Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Daniel Mensah
History
Research Interests
West African Environmental History, Ghanaian Forest History, Indigenous Knowledge System, Politics of Conservation and Ecology, Public Health-Campaigns, Environmentalism.
Pronouns
He/him/his
Biography
My research focuses on how forest management was deployed as a tool to respond to the colonial perception of West Africa as a “disease environment.” With this, I aim to demonstrate the interplay between forest management and public health interventions in the Gold Coast Colony from the Nineteenth Century to the Mid-1950s.