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Sagana State Lodge rice feast provides good food for thought

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Rice delicacy. Feeding hungry people for the sole purpose of achieving a political end is exploitative. [iStockphoto]

In his famous work, 'Things Fall Apart', Chinua Achebe says; "a man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes.

"When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so."

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