Authors :
ONWUGBUFOR ONYEKACHI
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 1 - January
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7614251
Abstract :
Poverty is a serious cankerworm that has eaten
deep into the fabrics of our national growth and
development as a region. Government policies, actions,
and inactions are mostly responsible for these menaces in
sub-Saharan Africa. They have made these policies in
isolation from the common good and exonerated the
opinions of the "common man". They have constantly
developed the urban areas for their own best interests
while ripping off the rural areas, polarizing them and
placing a poverty tag on them. This has often become
counterproductive and detrimental to the overall national
and regional output.
The rural areas in these regions need to be given
equal consideration as their urban counterparts. Humans
exist there and also have needs for good hospitals, roads,
technology, and contemporary infrastructure. Common
resources need to be evenly distributed to control ruralto-urban migration, and these rural areas must be
supported to stand on their own and harness their own
wealth in order to discourage excessive migration and
manpower losses in these areas. We all need to rise to the
task of rewriting these wrongs and creating a wholly
sustainable society for ourselves and generations yet
unborn.
Keywords :
Rural Sustainability, Self Sufficiency And Resilience; A Means Of Combating Urban Poverty/Unemployment Crisis In Sub Saharan Africa.
Poverty is a serious cankerworm that has eaten
deep into the fabrics of our national growth and
development as a region. Government policies, actions,
and inactions are mostly responsible for these menaces in
sub-Saharan Africa. They have made these policies in
isolation from the common good and exonerated the
opinions of the "common man". They have constantly
developed the urban areas for their own best interests
while ripping off the rural areas, polarizing them and
placing a poverty tag on them. This has often become
counterproductive and detrimental to the overall national
and regional output.
The rural areas in these regions need to be given
equal consideration as their urban counterparts. Humans
exist there and also have needs for good hospitals, roads,
technology, and contemporary infrastructure. Common
resources need to be evenly distributed to control ruralto-urban migration, and these rural areas must be
supported to stand on their own and harness their own
wealth in order to discourage excessive migration and
manpower losses in these areas. We all need to rise to the
task of rewriting these wrongs and creating a wholly
sustainable society for ourselves and generations yet
unborn.
Keywords :
Rural Sustainability, Self Sufficiency And Resilience; A Means Of Combating Urban Poverty/Unemployment Crisis In Sub Saharan Africa.
