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Palm Wine, Railways, and Gold reinterprets the early 20th-century rainforest in southern Côte d’Ivoire as a technological landscape. It examines the relationships among people, technology, nature, and empire, set against environmental constraints and imperial ambition. Challenging plantation-centred narratives, it reconstructs forest economies before oil palm and banana monocultures, highlighting the economic and cultural centrality of palm wine and kola nuts. It re-conceptualises the Abidjan–Niger Railway as fragile infrastructure requiring constant maintenance and repair, and links river-based gold mining to regional trade networks. Through everyday encounters, David Drengk foregrounds forest dwellers and their persisting contestation and negotiation of French colonial rule in West Africa.
Palm Wine, Railways, and Gold reinterprets the early 20th-century rainforest in southern Côte d’Ivoire as a technological landscape. It examines the relationships among people, technology, nature, and empire, set against environmental constraints and imperial ambition. Challenging plantation-centred narratives, it reconstructs forest economies before oil palm and banana monocultures, highlighting the economic and cultural centrality of palm wine and kola nuts. It re-conceptualises the Abidjan–Niger Railway as fragile infrastructure requiring constant maintenance and repair, and links river-based gold mining to regional trade networks. Through everyday encounters, David Drengk foregrounds forest dwellers and their persisting contestation and negotiation of French colonial rule in West Africa.
