My field staff, while I was chugging along on a motorbike squeezed between her and the driver, asked how Canadian agriculture was like.

“Where I live, it’s more varied, with different kinds of vegetables, berries. In the prairies, it’s almost all wheat and canola,” I struggled to summarize Canadian agriculture.

“Oh! The prairies! I remember studying that in high school geography,” she seemed to be very excited that she recognized what I was talking about.

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When did I ever study anything about African geography? I can barely remember if I even heard of the world Sahara.


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