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Protesters holding placards in Nairobi against ICPD25 on the eve of the convention on November 11, 2019

Countering ICPD25: Africa’s Overpopulation Narrative a “fallacy”, a “myth”

Nov 13, 2019

Some African Catholic professionals currently in Kenya's capital, Nairobi have criticized the narrative around controlling the rapid population growth in Africa, one of the issues implied in the five-theme agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) that got underway Tuesday, November 12, terming the narrative fallacious and mythical because “Africa is not overpopulated”.