Africa’s Drylands Need the Right Kind of Support – Listening to the Pastoralists Who Live There
Africa’s drylands are often imagined as vast, empty spaces. Romantic wilderness on the one hand. Zones of hunger, conflict and poverty on the other. Media stories tend to emphasise crises and scarcity, portraying these regions as peripheral and fragile. But this narrative obscures a more complex and hopeful reality. Across these landscapes, millions of pastoralists…