Planting trees – and hope – in a flood-prone Nigerian town
by Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi
Oct 18, 2022
4 minutes
A quarter of a century after the event, Soladoye Gbenjo still remembers the storm that changed everything. For months during the rainy season, battering rains tore through Igbajo, his rural community in the southwestern Nigerian state of Osun. Then came a wind that tore off the roof of his house, and dumped most of his belongings in the surrounding flooded fields.
Mr. Gbenjo, an agriculturist, realized something: His house, like most in the district of steep, windswept hills, was too open to the elements.
After replacing his roof, Mr. Gbenjo did the only other thing he could think of
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