I am giving a talk tomorrow for the INH series online, where I am looking at the origins of the Aburi Botanic Gardens in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) and the role that instructions and suggestions played in its management and early "success"
#botany #ghana.Bsky #HistSTM #aburibotanicgardens
#botany #ghana.Bsky #HistSTM #aburibotanicgardens
I argue that, as an experimental laboratory, the early success of the Aburi Botanic Garden played a key role in plans to permanently expand botanic stations across West Africa. Colonial “successes” however, did not come without its failures. instructingnaturalhistory.com/events/makin...
Nathan Bossoh (Southampton University) - Making Colonial Laboratories: Investigating the Role of Suggestions and Instructions in Managing the Aburi Botanic Gardens — Instructing Natural History
In his 1887 publication Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa , Cornelius Alfred Moloney, British Governor of the Lagos Colony, provided “suggestions” for the development of a network of botanic gard...
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May 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I am giving a talk tomorrow for the INH series online, where I am looking at the origins of the Aburi Botanic Gardens in the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) and the role that instructions and suggestions played in its management and early "success"
#botany #ghana.Bsky #HistSTM #aburibotanicgardens
#botany #ghana.Bsky #HistSTM #aburibotanicgardens