Before colonization, Nigerians have three elements present in home building; a backyard for vegetable garden, a play yard with fruit trees standing in the compound like a centerpiece, domestic animals.
Western urbanization has now, replaced these essential home elements with a fence, a gateman house, and a towering borehole water tank as the centerpiece.
These removals and replacements have partly broken down our unique bond, our values, and our collective sense of community ownership; weakening our community security, food security, health security, social and mental security.
SafeSide is advocating that some of these elements be reincorporated in our urbanization model.
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HOW MISSING BAKYARD RESHAPED OUR SOCIETY.
