Kept among the cultivators and entrepreneurs.
Moving in the value chain cargo of transformations
Sinking in divergent tagged views Ideologies
Protected in the endangered granaries lacking youth movements
Hospitalised by resilient food systems platforms
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Is it at the altar table for divine blessings
Sport kicked by the youth brigades without functionality
Scrambled by the hungry souls
Centered amidst conflicts and chaos
Accounted by nature’s heritage and blessings
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Is it established and rooted in best incentive practices
Inspected by the researchers with pondering big questions
Managed and maintained by cultural norms and standards
Integrated in the food and diet curriculum
Launched by traditional community leaders
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Is it in digital supermarkets and archives of new era
Gender streamlined capacities of the new syllabus
In fragmented information hubs with vaccum space to consider
In old fashioned good bye food systems detested by the marginalised youth
In marginalised shelf lives coded and ranked for expired date
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Is it hidden in the menu of high profiled chefs production packs
Food production centres and beverages of high excellence
Emerging food business of the new regime talents
In the royal granaries for food security reserves
In nutritional guidelines for human right to live
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Torn apart by diseases, taboos, weevils and other pests
Rebuilt in icon authorities proceedings and resolutions
Master minded by food security nutrition activist agenda
Advertised by sweet appetizing aroma ingredients
Kept by the steady well ground food systems and marrows
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Is it being designed and modeled by innovators?
Characterized by climate change phenomena
Hopeless like an animal in the trap
Burden like a load of sins
Troubled, naked and downcast like a shadow
Where is Africa’s food basket?
Mukundane B Albert
Cooperative and Agribusiness Management Specialist and African Poet
P.O Box 1340, Kampala, Uganda
Email: mukundanealbertb@gmail.com
Tel:+256772416201
