Engaging important discussions about social conflict, environmental change, and imperialism in Africa, Different Shades of Green points to legacies of African environmental writing, often neglected as a result of critical perspectives shaped by dominant Western conceptions of nature and environmentalism. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework and writing by African environmental activists, Byron Caminero-Santangelo highlights how African writers have challenged unjust, ecologically destructive forms of imperial development and resource extraction.