The book is titled, A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis. In this book, Nakate talks about her journey to becoming a climate activist. She explains how climate change intersects with issues of race, class, and education.
Nakate drew global attention last year when she was cropped out of a photo featuring Greta Thunberg and three white European climate activists at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos.
In a press statement released by her publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nakate says,
“The cropping had made it possible to believe that African climate activists were absent from Davos; that Africans weren’t active in the climate change movement; and that there wasn’t a global youth climate movement that included people like me and many others in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.”
This incident, according to her publisher, will be addressed in the book as a way of indicating a “larger problem in the movement for climate justice.”
Last year, Nakate was named a UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals and one of BBC’s 100 Women. Nakate is also the founder of Ponya Earth Foundation, which was formally known as the Rise up Climate Movement. Her foundation has raised awareness about the deforestation of the Congo Basin.
Congratulations Vanessa Nakate!
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