African Studies in Japanese rhyme

Here are my revision notes condensed into (bad) Haiku and below them my flat mates attempts. They are about economics can't you tell?

Aid:

Paris club iffies

Smell the coffee bean no growing trend to be seen

Commodities bah!

Environment demography and the resource base:

The Brown earth looks pretty dead

Too many folks, stats lye

Malthus he was wrong to frown

HIV/AIDS

Pre natal testing

Urban bias no one knows

Worse who really cares?

NGOs

Good intentions

But rich kids feeding poor ones

Hi Dependency

Famine:

Just how many must wilt

Before you can call it one

Depends who you are

Education:

Recover your cost

Pay for new green shorts and tie

Oops no cash for food

And here are the ones Alex made:

Aid

Too much or more--

Easterly versus Sach-s

For Africa to bloom?

Trade

Liberalize trade

Sugar and fresh cut flowers

Markets to succeed.

Environment, Demography and the Resources

Too many new kids

Crowding eating using

There’s no room to grow

People care, no?

Their food, their trees, their land

Plant more everyday.

HIV/AIDS

How can you measure?

Birth and growth and life and death

We simply cannot know.

NGOs

Many, like grass on field

Or busy carpenter ants

Their work is for who?

Famine

Not enough to eat?

Rice and potatoes won’t do

Enough but not good.

Education

Instead of pregnant

Girls to schools will help nation

Boys disappointed.