{"id":512,"date":"2012-05-09T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-05-09T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:00:05","slug":"africa-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/africa-in-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa in the Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alarming is the question of what will become of Africa\u2019s splendid fauna and flaura in the future. Will governments succeed in finding the right balance in the division of the available space between the animals and the steadily growing population?<\/p>\n<p>Faced with this ordeal, Africans show a resilience and optimism found nowhere else. Life goes on and there is singing and dancing as usual, and I am sure that people laugh more often here than anywhere else in the world. But, above all, they are proud of their continent. 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