‘It's radical’: the Ugandan city built on solar, shea butter and people power
by Caleb Okereke in Okere City from Environment | The Guardian on (#5EW2H)
Ojok Okello is transforming his destroyed village into a green town where social enterprises responsibly harness the shea tree
The village of Okere Mom-Kok was in ruins by the end of more than a decade of war in northern Uganda.
Now, just outside Ojok Okello's living-room door, final-year pupils at the early childhood centre are noisily breaking for recess and a market is clattering into life, as is the local craft brewery, as what has become Okere City begins a new day.
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