African leaders should take care of food security

Thank you for my second online edition of the Pambazuka magazine.

My comment is that nobody wants to be sick so that he/she can be treated. Thus my plea to African heads and all leaders is to address the issue of food security and then things like health can be catered for automatically. Why? With good nutrition, most diseases are kept at bay. There has been this craze in Kenya by the Ministry of Health for a National Health Bill. It is fine, but I can’t understand how it is going to work when there are over 300 000 Kenyans staying in the slums. Maybe you have heard of slums - visit one (Kibera slums) and get the real picture of what it means to be poor. The same applies to people living in rural areas. Their living conditions are below average.

Africa is a very productive land, and if this resource is harnessed properly, we can even produce a surplus.