07/20/2023
FROM OUR FRIEND IN AFRICA who joins our bonfire and brings his African Cashews.
"Why do we keep hearing about subsistence farming as a way for Africa to reach middle income status ? And then a smile
https://africaupclose.wilsoncenter.org/women-smallholder-farmers/
Good question!
The picture doesn't fit the story....
The author is THE PROBLEM. She is part of this african elite, educated to repeat the narratives of the LEFT that have since permeated the world organizations, the so-called non-profit organizations, and the universities.
In this case, the FALSE NARRATIVE is to:
1. demonize the african male,
2. establish the woman's reproductive system as an ASSET belonging to the woman, rather than a gift from God, not to be discussed in public, and certainly not to be considered as an asset,
3. push the idea that malnutrition and food insufficiency in Africa is a gender issue,
4. destroy the african society.
In other words, their false narrative on Africa is always about S*X, GENDER, and MALE DOMINATION.
None of that is true. The author actually points her finger to the real problem but does not develop the it, because she is blinded by the false narratives that are s*xier and widely accepted.
The real problem, ladies and gentlemen, is ACCESS TO CREDIT and ABSURD CUSTOMS POLICIES in Africa.
The young woman in the picture, her grandmother carried a hoe on her shoulder. Why is the young lady still carrying a hoe on her shoulder today???
She should be driving a tractor!!! If she drove a tractor, then she would be producing more yams, and hunger in Africa would be solved.
The problem is that the bank in Africa would not lend her $8000 to purchase and ship a used tractor from America.
Even if the bank lent her money to purchase the tractor, she would have to borrow another $8000 to clear customs in her own country.
Folks, hunger in Africa is not s*x, not gender, not lgbtq, not african men spending their time making babies and drinking palm-wine....
hunger in Africa is access to credit...., is GLASS-STEAGALL."
--Jocelyn Tchakounte
President, African Diaspora International Trade Association, Inc
(Empowering African Small Business with American Technology)
In African countries, agriculture is the backbone of most economies, contributing about 25 percent to their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) yet it is dominated by smallholder farmers. Smallholder farms account for only 12 percent of the world's farmland, yet they provide an estimated 80 percent of the....
