These feels like punishment
Laumu ancestors for willingly settling in arid areas while others were busy enjoying the fruits of the most fertile lands yet to be homesteaded.
Actually somalia was not a “dessert” when the somalis settled there. They have methodically destroyed the entire savvanah woodland ecosystem, which has accelerated in the past 100 years. Even in 1500s when vasco da gama first visited EA coast, the entire somalia was covered by a thick woodland. Wenyewe ndio wamechoma miti na kufyeka kila kitu
Today, they’re doing charcoal exports on an industrial scale, destroyed the entire ecosystem until the soil is swept away and bare rock is left
They are literally dessertifying the entire nation every minute of their lives
We are lirerally watching a society imbued with thanatos
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Oh wow. Interesting.