Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
These Ugandan children are playing at being farmers, says Zachary. “But it goes to show, you can get pretty good with a hoe if you start when you’re a kid.” Will Africa’s recent farming boom endure? It’s an open question, Zachary says, but for the first time in a long time, there’s good reason for optimism.















G. Pascal Zachary
is the author of Bush’s biography, Endless Frontier (1997), and the editor of The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Columbia University Press, 2022). He has taught at Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and Arizona State University.
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