Africa is overpopulated

Last week saw a conference in Atlanta for women entrepreneurs. There was a speaker who showed a demographic chart which seemed unimpressive. Until tonight. He was talking about entrepreneurial opportunities around the world in terms of populations and thus markets. He showed projections of world populations in 2010, pointing out that China and India would have the largest populations. He also showed Africa's population. As the only competitor to India's population. YES. Read Africa. Not Kenya, not South Africa and not Sudan. He compared Africa's population growth to India's population. Continent vs country.

No surprise?

Africa is the second largest land mass. That is 11,668,545 sq. miles or nearly 31million sq. km. If you are a visual person:


So we are overpopulated right? Hence why we are dying of drought right? Look at the following map:



It is distorted by the size of the population in that area, i.e. the thinner the area the smaller the population. Notice Africa and its neighbor India.

Kihumbu Thairu puts it well in his book African Holocaust (not online for sale - look for it in Kenya). As Africans we are opening ourselves up to depopulating our lands. And if you haven't read it either, get The African Civilization. I'm no longer smiling with the foolish naivety I had.

In my opinion, we need to be having more children. Have as many as you can take care of and don't fall for the myth that a two child family is a sign of progress. Our overpopulation comes from stretching our resources and not replenishing them. That is where our focus should be as opposed to birth control and curbing family size.

Think how empty Africa is. Think how resourceful it is. And think who will own it 50 years from now. If we continue at our current trend, our children, yours and mine will be a minority and squatters.

Guess who the land will belong to.

pounds

Heeehehhee.

I have put on a few pounds. But I don't notice it. until someone points it out. It is almost like when you grow breasts.

It happens so gradually that one day you look down and realise just then that there is an obstacle in the way of your feet. If you are so lucky.

So how fat is too fat to be cute...and on the flip side how skinny is too skinny to be sexy.

I have been both sides of the scale. A couple of months ago, I was being asked why I was losing weight.

Hey my jeans still fit, if anything, they fit better! And I have a nice parcel in the back.