When considering the African continent, and more specifically, Angola and Mozambique, the countries that provide the case studies for our chapter, within the environmental framework, it becomes evident that we are examining territories with plentiful of natural resources, whose exploitation is strongly connected with the presence of foreign capital and industrialisation. In the case of Angola, the main elements of extractions are diamonds and oil (as of 2009 Angola became the biggest oil producer in Africa), while Mozambique’s main products are aluminium and natural gas. What is more, in both cases we are dealing with coastal countries that are more endangered by water/oceanic movements provoked by climate change such as cyclones or tsunamis (Rodrigues 2019). The cyclone Idai that in 2019 devastated Beira, the second biggest Mozambican city, may serve as an example. Also, these are territories affected by cyclical periods of drought and floods. In the face of this situation, literature, as a powerful tool of cultural labour, tends to engage increasingly with environmental topics such as the extraction of raw materials, water scarcity, climate change, and other similar elements. African literatures create narratives that intertwine environmental causes with the functioning of global capitalism, offering profound and complex insights into the effects on developing countries. In this chapter, we have chosen two novels, Os Transparentes (2013) by the Angolan writer Ondjaki and Água – uma novela rural (2016) by the Mozambican author João Paulo Borges Coelho, as perfect examples of such narratives.