The story that Britain is donating two lionesses to Uganda is unbelievable. It is a story that demonstrates the hopelessness of Africa at its core.
Lions and many other animals are native to Uganda, and would have been a critical cash cow. Where did the lions go? Poisoned by pastoralists, so says the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). That is the shifty (Allan Tacca) explanation. A major part of the problem is lack of foresight and planning, which also shows up in bad roads and collapsing public infrastructures. Foreigners took, were given or stole a variety of animals just as they did humans. They went built zoos in their homelands. Now, why would middle-class Americans go to Africa to see animals when they can go to Florida and see the same animals? Which fool gives away his precious assets so that others can profit from while he starves?
Now that climate change is happening and the power that be sells away forests to “investors,” grasshoppers (cinene) may find nowhere to spawn. I understand part of the Baganda bride price includes cinene. We need to send an SOS to mother Britain. I am sure a foreign service Eton kid foresaw the day cinene would be of service in winning and influencing “friends,” and arranged for the breeding of imported cinene in Pax Britannia.
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