Mwafrika doesn’t have to die. She can be saved by the wisdom of her ancestors

In the scorched and dusty lands of the Sahel and West Africa, where rain is scarce but fierce on the day it comes, farmers have fallen to the genius of the past to green deserts and produce bumper harvests. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG

Namibia is one of the better-governed African countries with a law-based order, but faced with a climate change crisis, it resorted to an old-fashioned bush solution.

Southern Africa is reeling from a severe climate-fuelled drought, the worst in 70 years, which has left nearly 68 million people on the back foot. Over 17 percent of people in the region need aid amid climate change-fuelled drought.