Africa Agriculture’s potential-enough is enough (PART 2)

By Patrick Mayoh Frankly, I was delighted to have so many feedbacks on PART 1 of this post. And I am humbled by the many remarks and criticisms I received from this article. Some feedbacks came as very challenging questions that required very deep and tough answers[1]. Having said that, I would equally like to talk about a video link a friend sent me on Facebook. This was a documentary (je mange donc je suis[2] is the title) about the difficulties...

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Africa Agriculture’s potential-enough is enough (PART 1)

By Patrick Mayoh The chocolate bar you had for your snack was probably made with Cocoa cultivated in Ivory Coast. The Flowers you offered your mum on mother’s day were possibly shipped over from Kenya to the UK. Africa accounts for 60% of the total world area of cultivable and fertile lands. So why is it that the continent is yet to have a green revolution on the scale of Asia and China in particular? Having read a well researched and thoroughly...

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