Prince William Should Shut His Mouth and Resist The Urge To Lecture Africans

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readNov 27, 2021

His recent speech on population was particularly ill advised.

The duke of Cambridge via Wikimedia commons

Prior to the birth of his youngest son, Prince Louis, Prince William, the duke of Cambridge gave a speech in which he attacked Africa’s population growth as having a deleterious effect on wildlife.

At the tusk awards a few days ago, he repeated the words from the very speech he had given in 2017.

He was quoted as saying the following:

The increasing pressure on Africa’s wildlife and wild spaces as a result of human population presents a huge challenge for conservationists.

Africa’s extraordinarily rich biodiversity has the ability to sequester vast amounts of carbon, But this is only possible if these landscapes remain truly intact and are protected as functioning ecosystems.

Our wildlife plays a vital role in keeping nature in balance and maintaining this precious cycle of life. If we keep destroying or removing the threads that make up the natural tapestry of life on earth, it will simply begin to break down, exacerbating climate change still further.

While I have never sought to downplay the seriousness and the fierce urgency of the need to act on climate change, the duke of Cambridge was well out of…

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible