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Epilogue · The book

The book that tells the whole story

Abundance is both a memoir and a manifesto: one man's journey through African agriculture, and a plan for the continent's next quarter-century. It was conceived one evening in the Seychelles in 2016, and its preface is signed in Dar es Salaam, June 2025.

Authors
Prof. Arun Tiwari and Dr Charity Mutegi
As narrated by
Mahesh Patel
Publisher
Sakal Publications
Shape
Preface, 13 chapters in three parts, epilogue
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“This is not just my story. It is the story of Africa's farmers, of their resilience and their promise.”

From the Preface

The book draws on more than forty years of connecting smallholder farmers in thirty African countries to global markets. It argues that Africa can reach middle-income status through farming, and that the continent can repeat the transformations of India and China, which lifted millions out of poverty within a generation.

Above all, he writes, it is an invitation to Africa's young people to see agriculture “not as the labour of the past, but as the opportunity of the future.”

Three parts

From diagnosis to action

Each part of the book opens with a woodcut illustration. Part II is where this site's story lives: Kapunga, Zanzibar, cashew and pulses.

Woodcut of a young farmer with cashew, sugarcane, a map of Africa, an open book and a tractor
Part IThe Agricultural Landscape in AfricaWhy do Africa's farmers remain poor on productive land? False dawns, the resource paradox, food systems, seed and an African Green Revolution.
Woodcut of a woman farmer with cashew, rice, sugarcane, an open book and a path through fields
Part IICase Studies of SuccessWhat happens when the system around the farmer is connected? Kapunga, Zanzibar sugar, cashew and proteins.
Woodcut of a smiling farmer in a hat with sunflower, maize, a drone, an open book and a tractor
Part IIIVision 2050: A Transformation ManifestoPowering farms, moving from poverty to prosperity, and the path to abundance.

Contents

  1. Part I · The Agricultural Landscape in Africa
  2. ·Preface
  3. ·Introduction
  4. 1The Next Growth Pole
  5. 2A False Dawn to Daybreak
  6. 3The Resource Paradox
  7. 4Rethinking Food Systems
  8. 5Seed Sector Development
  9. 6An African Green Revolution
  1. Part II · Case Studies of Success
  2. 7Kapunga Rice Project
  3. 8Zanzibar Sugar Project
  4. 9Cashew Projects
  5. 10Growing Proteins
  1. Part III · Vision 2050: A Transformation Manifesto
  2. 11Powering Africa's Farms
  3. 12From Poverty to Prosperity
  4. 13The Path to Abundance
  5. ·Epilogue
The voices behind the book

Written by Prof. Arun Tiwari and Dr Charity Mutegi, as narrated by Mahesh Patel

Mahesh Patel

Narrator. Born in Nairobi in 1955. Founder and chairman of Export Trading Group (ETG), a supply-chain company operating in more than 40 countries and employing over 7,000 people. Founder of Technobrain in 1997 and of the Empowering Farmers Foundation.

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Prof. Arun Tiwari

Author. A missile scientist who led the Civilian Spinoff of India's Defence Technology Programme, including indigenous coronary stents, and piloted the Pan-Africa e-Network project. Co-author of Wings of Fire, the autobiography of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and author of 30 further books.

Dr Charity K. Mutegi

Author. A Kenyan food scientist and international consultant with more than two decades in food safety and agriculture across Africa, with IITA, IFC, UNIDO and the East African Community, among others. A recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application.

“Abundance is not a gift to be awaited, but a path to be walked together—step by step, harvest by harvest.”

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