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[from amaah] Impact of urban agriculture on malaria vectors in Accra, Ghana
study shows that urban malaria transmission is ongoing in Accra and that the EIR seems increased in urban areas where irrigated farming takes place. In addition, the urban setting seems to pose a number of unique challenges to malaria control that need further investigation, e.g. anophelines may be adapting to more polluted larval habitats, may be more exophilic than in rural settings thereby decreasing the efficacy of IRS and the intensive use of pesticides in urban agriculture is likely to increase the speed with which insecticide resistance develops.
[from amaah] The Founding Of Nima
on the early history of Nima and its formation "he obtained permission to settle here, and to build a village for the accommodation of strangers like himself in 1931" A place for outsiders on the fringe of urbanity. a resting place for exiled souls
[from amaah] Slums Of Our Earth
A bracing, angry poem by Kofi Anyidoho on the universality of slums. written at the height of 'revolution' in Ghana. "There are no lights in the slums but there are flames in the hearts of slum dwellers"
