Introduction
Introduction What about food in Africa? What does water have to do about food in Africa? In short, near enough everything. The focus of this blog is to try to understand the relationship between water and food development in Africa. This extends far beyond the struggles of access to water and food, which are ubiquitous on this planet but seem disproportionately concentrated in Africa. A Moment of Reflection Figure One: Ed Sheeran (singer) visits an African Village (EdSheeran.com, 2017) Before divulging any issues in detail, it is important to first pause and clarify my own position as a blog writer. “Africa” covers almost twelve million square kilometres between its longitudinal poles of Al-Ghīrān Point in the North and Cape Agulhas in the South (Robert K.A. Gardiner and John F.M. Middleton, 2018). Between them lies fifty-six countries, thousands of languages and a sundry of lives each uniquely shaped through distinctive experiences of ge...