10th July 2024  /  EAGLE FM

Topic: The Value of Land, Above and Below

So many African countries are experiencing droughts. Does this mean we are not paying attention to how to grow food?

For centuries, Africans have depended on toiling the land for their sustenance, but with colonisation came the extractive sectors for what is beneath the land.

Did we abandon what is on top of the earth for what is beneath it? And if we did, what did we gain?