Hunger is something we don't pray for even our enemies. It is an unpalatable situation.
According to Food Aid Foundation's 'Hunger Statistics', 821 million people go to bed daily without food. Amazingly, one in nine people go to bed on an empty stomach each night.
As if that was not enough, the organisation argue further that one in three people suffer from some form of malnutrition.
The above shows this is a world problem and one which many countries are yet to solve.
Some have argued that our lack of birth control measures is responsible for this threat to our survival. Others have argued that we have surplus food but some with money and power decide to store them for their families while others suffer.
Whichever way you look at it, people are hungry and people still sleep on an empty stomach daily.
But something i don't understand is why hunger seems to be 'an African' thing? Why is it that it seems to be a synonym when Africa is mentioned?
Is it that African are condemned to be poor or they are poor because they can't reason well or they are just poor because their leaders make it so or they are poor because they lack visionary leaders?
Something is definitely not right somewhere. This is a world problem but somehow peculiar to the African.
Perhaps, you should try do a Google search to understand the gravity of this issue and to see why i feel something is wrong.
A Google search on 'poverty' or 'hunger' simply returns Blacks as result of the search. It is either kids begging for food, kids walking in a swamp area, kids carried by their parents begging for food or homeless Black parents and children living and begging on the street.
The results in most cases, if not all cases return Black people and especially Africans.
It is really sad and i don't know if it is deliberate by Google to portray Africa as continent with people suffering from hunger or continent that is suffering.
Or it's simply our realities and we are truly poor and very hungry.
While the latter might be true, it is funny to see that we allocate billions and trillions for frivolities while our people suffer and die of hunger.
It is a shame that we became the joke of the international community. A continent so blessed with natural resources and great people and minds is plagued by hunger, such that it becomes another name for them.
Whether the results are deliberate or not, we need to retrace our steps and focus on how to eliminate this hunger from our land.
We have have lands and manpower, yet we suffer the simplest but yet vital thing we must have as a people.
Africa, think!!!!!