Is it alright to displace people off wildlife areas in effort to preserve the environment?

With a growing population not only in Africa but globally, there is a great increase in demand of land for shelter and work where there is no available space unless...
   Forest and natural areas are cleared for settlements to be built, whereby animals are displaced due to the loss of their habitats and in most cases eventual death and extinction.
 

A study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that during the decade from 1980 to 1990, the world's tropical forests were reduced by an average of 15.4 million hectares per year (0.8 percent annual rate of deforestation). The area of land cleared during the decade is equivalent to nearly three times the size of France. Imagine that?
   However, in some areas indigenous cultures and traditions have managed to live in symbiosis with the wildlife around them in effort to survive with all the available neccessities. One of these cultures are the Maasai who have been living in gaming land with their herds and whom have recently faced pressure to relocate and leave the area.
    Even though the animals do face great threat and danger from people interfering within the 'ways of nature', what happens to those who took the initiative to find a way to create their own shelter and work but are forced to end up majority of the time on the streets? Is there a way to possibly preserve the wildlife whilst still managing to provide shelter space for people especially in our continent? Or are we forced to disregard human rights in effort to preserve animal rights?

IS FOOD SECURITY THE CAUSE OF CIVIL WARS?

An inauguration is supposed to be a lively event. One of those where we get to see our political leaders in a different light. We get to see the people in them because for once they are not making promises but eating the fruits of their labor just to say the least but a comment made by the president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni during president Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration sent my mind sprawling in thought.
 He said that the Pokot are stealing his cattle i.e. the cattle of the people of Uganda. At first I thought how absurd but think about it, is it really that absurd?

Have you ever thought of the implications of such utterances to the regional relations between two countries?  Or let’s say his words were true the implications of such actions by the Pokot to the relations between Kenya and Uganda?

I don’t mean to be alarming or look like I want to create a mountain out of a mere mole hill but that is the very cause of some of the civil wars we have witnessed in Africa over the last decade. It is such small matters that can pass for absurd ideas that cause bloodshed and death of innocent people.
 The factor behind this is idea is food insecurity; it is this competition for resources that generates cycles of hunger and hopelessness that are likely to bred violence. The cycles occur mostly in areas with great population dispersion over the national territory and thus prove difficult for the government to control rebel groups that might spring up.

But is it really fair to blame our wars on food security? When we are resting on our laurels, a vast majority of our population is ignorant and we get swayed easily by the wind blown by our political leaders to do whatever they want? Is it really food security that is the problem or are we sitting on a stool without all three feet?

Much as we would like it to be food security alone we can’t ignore the fact that we are failing in other areas thus we are hurting each other with our continued hostility towards each other. But what is the way forward do we focus on one side and try solve one issue at a time and watch the other issues grow or do we act blind to everything except that which we want to be the main factor. I don’t but I think you just might be the next Einstein with your contribution to this topic. It’s your Eureka moment

Can Equality ever be fully sustained?

With two female presidents in Africa and women now battling men for political seat, it is now more than ever that women within our continent are beginning to rise up to the same level to their male

counterparts.

Equality on a widespread scale can be argued to be idealistic, as women are mostly naturally sculpted and gifted for certain sectors whereas men are sculpted for other tasks as well. A woman is originally seen as a mother who nurtures and teaches the value of morals and life skills, whereas the man is seen as the breadwinner who goes out into the ‘wild’ to bring back the food.

Nevertheless, during this century there has been an overturn between the responsibilities of both genders. African men have become more reluctant to work and instead decide to be the ones to up bring their children, whilst women more focused than ever have gone out into what was once a male dominated ‘wilderness’.

A woman once told us that religion, tradition and morals are passed through the mother as only the mother knows the father of the child and has the emotional capability of teaching her child of how to deal with emotions. A man on the other hand has the mentality to make decision based majority on logics of gaining the best out of it. Imagine Didier Drogba the Ivorian Captain & striker playing in defence. Now Drogba could do well in that position but he would be most effective up-front as a strikers. How does it relate? Place either women or men as Drogba, then their most effective position in life as striker and the least effective as defence.

Yet for there to be leadership or a sense of control one must be lower than the other. Equality can be achieved in certain scenarios as seen in our world of today, but can we sustain this equality or are the laws made just pen on paper and not actually implemented?

In the words of Golda Meir, “To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man” Does this mean that men are naturally better than women at being decisive or are women becoming Africa’s new men? Why try to be the man when women are the most valuable part in human life?