The mobile workshop. The Tsetse fly and African knowledge production.

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The tsetse fly is a pan-African insect that bites an infective forest
animal and ingests blood filled with invisible parasites, which it
carries and transmits into cattle and people as it bites them, leading
to n'gana (animal trypanosomiasis) and sleeping sickness. In The Mobile Workshop,
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse
fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open
laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse
control policies. He traces the pestiferous work that an indefatigable,
mobile insect does through its movements, and the work done by humans to
control it.