Mango – sweet, juicy wonderful. Yes, once again we are in the mango season – and what a season!!!!!!! Every available tree is ‘bedecked’ with yellowish/red juicy succulent fruits – that invitingly cries to be picked by all who pass by. This is more so because when their cries are ignored there may be one about to land squarely on your head – especially on strong windy days. Okay – a bit of poetic license here but I hope the point is made. The succulent things are in abundance but sadly not many people eat them, something that baffles me considering the number of malnourished children who attend the hospital daily. Mangoes are – I am told - rich in vitamins, easy to eat and (here in Segbwema) relatively easy to get – especially this time of the year. Why not many are being eaten baffles us a great deal. Countries such as Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica,- just to name a few - have realised both the economic and nutritional importance of mangoes and have made profitable industry of bottling and canning them. Our desire – to help the mothers attending the clinics realise the nutritional value of this fruit – oh sweet sweet mango – hmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Michael, you seem to be remembering your childhood days climbing mango trees in Teshie, and wondering how the young men in Sierra Leone are not doing the same. Beauty, as they say, is in the eyes of the beholder.
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