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Ramadan and rural hunger
Mon Apr 19 2021
On the third day of the holy month of Ramadan, I visited my hometown of Malumfashi in Katsina State. I was happy to witness the early days of the fast there which brought back nostalgic memories of my childhood. However, my reveries were abruptly cut short by the myriad of women I have seen come to my mother in search of food. There was something eerily chilling about the pain in their eyes and the subsequent joy in receiving 5kg bags of maize or rice and pasta which my mother has arranged in polythene bags, ready to go. The same afternoon, I went to pay homage to the district head of Malumfashi, the Galadima of Katsina and I learned of a similarly dire situation whereby, after providing for a few dozens of these women in the first two days of the month with grains and other food items, the royal came home from the mosque only to meet a queue of over 60 more women in his palace. Their number was increasing at a rate that no ordinary food ban