The Dangers of Farming Amidst Insecurity
Vestiges Of Violence: Episode 129
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3 Oct 2025
You used to spend long days on the farm, planting a variety of crops and bringing home a full harvest. Now, you work only a few hours under the watch of soldiers. You can’t go far from town, and you can’t plant tall crops anymore because they can conceal terrorists.
So you plant only beans and groundnuts, but the yield is never enough. And each time you step onto the farm, you know you might hear gunshots, and you would have to run for your life.
In this episode of VOV, we recount the story of Hannatu Isiah, a farmer in Madagali, a rural community in Adamawa State, in northeastern Nigeria, who is unable to feed or earn due to insecurity.
Reported and scripted by Sabiqah Bello
Voice acting by Rukayya Saeed
Multimedia editor is Anthony Asemota
Executive producer is Ahmad Salkida
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