The Hill Barbers
Jan 2010 · African Books Collective
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Crafted in a colourful, razor-sharp blend of poetry and prose, The Hill Barbers depicts the wanton destruction of water catchments in most communities in Africa. This is inextricably linked to the traditional practice of shifting cultivation, motivated largely by farmers' struggle to acquire more arable farmland to meet the needs of their rapidly growing families. The immediate consequence is acute water shortages, with obvious health and economic implications. Agro-forestry and other soil management techniques are subtly proposed as practical measures to effectively address the issue of shifting cultivation and the associated problem of encroachment into the delicate water catchments.
About the author
The2014 winner of the Eko Prize for Emerging Anglophone Writers in thepoetry category, Ekpe Inyang holds an MSc. in Advanced ProfessionalStudies (Environmental Studies) from the University of Strathclyde, UK.He spent several years working for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and also served as a short-termconsultant to the German Technical Agency (GTZ, now GIZ) in the SouthWest Region, Cameroon. He was a lecturer and Coordinator of the Diplomain Development Studies Programme at the Pan-African Institute forDevelopment - West Africa, in Buea, Cameroon, and currently the CapacityBuilding Advisor of WWF Coastal Forests Programme (WWF-CFP) andEducation for Sustainable Development and Youth Focal Point for WWFCameroon Country Programme Office (WWF-CCPO). He has published eightplays, four scientific articles, a book chapter, two major textbooks(one as co-author), and eight poetry anthologies, six of which have beenpublished.
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