Agric Outlook; The comedy of governement sugar

Written by Oral East Africa

The only constant thing in the world is change, yet there is nothing new under the sun, a paradox that eats slowly away at our shared desire to keep the old god, Time, waiting.

To study change, this regularly occurring cycle in our lives, we are asking artists, journalists, civil society, business leadership and Ceos what they think tomorrow will look like for the way they have been doing things in this disruptive age of technology, and geopolitical power shift.

We want to look at life today and see what we can imagine will come into being in different careers, social structures, political organisaztion, art and literature as a response the crisis of confidence in the future that sets in during transitions throughout history.
In this episode we talk to Dominic Omondi, a Business Daily Journalist who recently did a 360-degree coverage on the illusions behind the revival of sugar millers in western Kenya as elite capture plot the land grab that will define the future of this region, witnessing a generational population explosion.

We ask, if the government promised our grandfathers the sweetness of sugar, but delivered poverty, have they broken the social contract?

Should we let them then decide what is best for our future, given the low success rate and lack of imagination to see a demographic challenge? We ask how journalism has been transformed by AI and how this mirrors what to expect in the economy.

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