Fw. LETTER TO AFRICA: REVERSING THE SAHARA

At a pathetic time as this, it’s sad that so much attention has been diverted to other issues that appear to be of superior significance, this should seem a bit extraneous, but let’s look sincerely into the question at hand.

What appears in the media is the Turkana oil and no one cares to know that carbon from this oil will have to go somewhere after usage. And that that ‘somewhere’ is fast running out of capacity.

THE SAHARA DESERT 

 Leaders are fighting tooth and nail to clinch top positions not knowing that they may end up leading nations on mandatory hunger strikes.

Technologists are inventing and developing machines, (manipulating organisms too) oblivious of the reality that they could end up importing food, reversing to the very basics.

Miners are assembling their craft with immense dexterity unaware of the simple fact that all the oil billions might do the country no good. And is not really what the country and its citizens are in need of.

Astronomers are at work trying to predict future weather trends but forgetting the very basics. How to improve these varying weather patterns that have learnt to be so tricky presently.

It’s like no one is realizing that the Sahara desert is slowly but surely creeping southward even into areas its effects had not been felt before.

I imagine it would be better for the entire Africa to be one huge desert so we could call it Africa Desert. And I believe we would even have more oil if that eventually comes to pass and we will have a tremendous potential to generate solar energy and export it across the seas maybe via radiowaves or fibre optics engineers know how they will do it. All this in exchange for foreign food.

Hey! Be serious Africa.

We may then be able to raise sufficient funds to walk out of the continent wide debt crisis and import food from other continents or even Mars, who knows?

Vast areas without tree coverage has been the order of the day and not even the leaders are ready to raise an eyebrow over this at such critical times. They are only focusing on how to scheme and ensure they end up with the top cake. National Environmental Management Authority in Kenya is not paying much attention to this though they are quite efficient to lock up street preachers and fine them. (Where is the logic?).

Lest we forget, all this we yearn for will be a curse unless we rejuvenate the extreme basics, not until Africa is the gorgeous green continent it ought to be, its all in futile and our dreams will be all shuttered pretty in next to no time.  

I love you Africa     Sahara Desert