A Quick Note To Joy Wahba - Who Loves Africa's Rainforests: And Their Fringe-Forest Farming Communities

My dear Joy,

 
Many thanks indeed for your kind words. Yes, it isn't a bad photograph, at all, I guess - although one regrets the fact that we had had to take off our Wellington boots, just before the photograph was taken: reason being that we were just about to set off from our Akyem Juaso freehold rainforest property, for the journey back home, to Gomoa Buduburam. I would have looked the business, paaaaa, oooo, Ohemaa paaapabi. Cool 

 

As it happens, it suddenly struck me, on the journey back home, that perhaps you and my dear young friend, the ever-brilliant Ian Knisely, could set up a new kind of NGO.

 

The world needs a new kind of Africa-focused conservation NGO, which will not be your average run-of-the-mill charitable organisation doing good, but the administrative costs of which nearly always swallow up huge chunks of donated cash (to serve as personal income-sources for sodden well-off-careerists, sadly).

 

Such an Africa-focused conservation NGO, will enable the harnessing of the many gifts and talents of your dynamic demographic, to source funding, for the empowerment of young people in fringe-forest communities, across the continent of Africa.

 

From my own personal observations, over the years, if, as Ghanaian landowners, we could pay local youth well, to protect valuable biodiversity-rich privately-owned rainforest lands, which, in a sense, we are all mere stewards of, after all, it will definitey help us better conserve and protect Ghana's rainforests.

 

With the availability of funding, to ensure such community-stakeholder-protection, It would mean that large private land owners across my native Ghana, would never have to worry about illegal sandwinners, illegal loggers and illegal gold miners, invading and unlawfully occuppying our lands. Wow.

 

Sadly, our family's Akyem Juaso freehold upland evergreen rainforest, is now teeming with adventerous youth from sister West African nations, who explore for gold with metal detectors, and immediately engage in galamsey, wherever they hear pings from their confounded metal detectors.

 

Regretably, security-wise, my native Ghana is most definitely not a serious nation - when it comes to keeping out young foreign men, who, to all intents and purposes are potential footsoldiers, for local warlord-like-types (forever stealing gold from land they mostly occupy forcefully, or buy from desperately-poor cocoa farmers strapped for cash).

 

The plain truth, is that only drones can enable those cunning and hungry-for-cash young people, from sister West African nations, to be closely monitored. If we are serious about the safety of our Republic, then they all ought to be immediately arrested, prosecuted and jailed. Simple. Ditto deported after serving lengthy prison sentences. Yooooooo...

 

The most worrying thing about the whole ghastly situation, is that not even a single one of those potential fifth-column COVID-19-foot-soldiers, now swarming across gold-bearing-fringe-forest-communities, such as Akyem Juaso, ever wear nose masks. Imagine that. Incredible. Hmmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem, ooooo.

 

Perhaps the question we ought to ponder over is: Who are those in Ghanaian officialdom allowing this egregious-outrage, to go on, in the P. E. Thompson Estate's 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property, in the Akyem Juaso section of the Atewa Range upland evergreen rainforest, koraaaaa? Hmmmm, Oman Ghana, enti, yeweiye, paaaaa, enei? Asem kesie, bi, ebeba debi ankasa, ooooo. Yooooooo...