Failed by Logging Companies, Communities Turn to Forest Ownership
It is close to midday in Zubah Town, Gbarngay Clan in the Bokomu District of Gbarpolu County.
Watta Nagbe sits under a thatched hut cooking cassava leaf. A bamboo drier hangs from the hut’s blackened attic her kitchen on top of a hearth.
She stirs and stirs again, and at the same time gives instructions to a few men building a hut nearby. The men pay keen attention to her.
Nagbe is well-known here. Zubah Town is right on a major route connecting neighboring towns and villages.
Her father founded the village many years ago. But she is better known for her resistance to a logging company when it operated here a few years back.
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