@inbook{3f2848044b79411793a76374f6e7be26,
title = "Colonial and post-colonial irrigation efforts in the Office du Niger, Inner Delta of the Niger, 1900-2000",
abstract = "From the air one sees that civilization is order: a pattern imposed upon a shaggy landscape. To some extent it is simply straight lines. [...] we came suddenly to a patch of squares, as if we had an aerial view of the Red Queen{\textquoteright}s chess-board. The landscape had been laid out with a ruler, it was patterned with black and green rectangles, streaked by lines and dotted with neat toy compounds. [...] This was the Mwea-Teberre irrigation scheme, lying on the plains south-east of Mt. Kenya. ",
author = "Maurits Ertsen",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-178076871-7",
volume = "3",
series = "A History of Water: Water and Climate Change",
publisher = "I.B. Tauris & Company",
pages = "231-- 250",
editor = "{ Tvedt}, T. and T. Oestigaard",
booktitle = "A History of Water",
}