Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Daniel Mensah
Graduate Affiliate, 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.