Our Economic Trees: Victim of Our Greed Charcoal Production I McBashMedia

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Gone are the days when the Sisaala enclave could boast of being the haven or a hub for the Northern cocoa Shea tree and the Dawa Dawa tree.

The Shea nut processing into Shea butter has been a source of livelihood for many households in the Sisaala enclave and Upper West Region at large.

The ugly menace of commercial charcoal burning or production in the Sissala enclave despite several measures put in place to stop it has seen no results. 


Now, is the time we have to enact and gazette by-laws and strengthen their enforcement at the various District and Municipal levels to curb the voracious and indiscriminate felling of the Shea and dawadawa trees for commercial charcoal production. 

One is usually greeted with heaps of charcoal burning sites on community travels especially during the dry season since there is no more economic work to engage in by community folks. 

Sisaala West District has by all indications been seen as the World Bank for commercial charcoal production and hence indiscriminate felling of economic trees such as the Shea and dawadawa. 

The pictures accompanying this write-up, are shots taken very close to the Kunkorgu community and not far from Gwollu the Sisaala West District of the Upper West Region of Ghana. 


Community leaders such as chiefs, Imams, pastors, and assemblymembers use this stretch of road to Gwollu and Kunkorgu but non has seen something wrong with this dastardly act. 

What future lies ahead of us if this phenomenon continues for five and more years to come?

If indeed these ugly scenes go down well with your conscience then, disaster awaits us all.

By: Ayamga Bawa Fatawu 

     Visual Story Teller 

       An Environmentalist

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