Opinion: Africa’s Population Explosion: A Ticking Time Bomb, By Ebere Onwudiwe
But foreign philanthropists seem to worry more about this than African leaders. According to a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation survey two years ago, an additional three billion people will be born in Africa by the end of this century, meaning that, according to Bill Gates, the continent will have to “quadruple its agricultural productivity to feed itself.” How are we going to achieve that?
This is the kind of thinking that Africa’s elite should note as another best practice. We do not have enough resources to feed, educate, and provide jobs for this huge future population. Nigeria’s population, for example, is projected to hit over 300 million by 2030. This is not right. It cannot guarantee a strong future for the giant of Africa, because as the story of David and Goliath shows, size is not everything. We must abandon this laissez-faire ‘increase and multiply’ population policy, for a future that we can live with.Share this:
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