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šŸ‡³šŸ‡± The Netherlands
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African Studies Centre, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Social Sciences
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2022 2nd Semester
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Of oxen, trees, sardines and stones: Writing a multispecies environmental history of the ā€˜Big Holeā€™, Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920

The chance find of a diamond, at the foot of a Camelthorn tree on a kopje in South Africa in 1871, initiated an industrial mining revolution, the effects of which continue to reverberate into the present and far into the future.