A Bigger Picture
My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
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Leading climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate brings her fierce, fearless spirit, new perspective, and superstar bona fides to the biggest issue of our time. In A Bigger Picture, her first book, she shares her story as a young Ugandan woman who sees that her community bears disproportionate consequences to the climate crisis. At the same time, she sees that activists from African nations and the global south are not being heard in the same way as activists from white nations are heard. Inspired by Sweden's Greta Thunberg, in 2019 Nakate became Uganda's first Fridays for Future protestor, awakening to her personal power and summoning within herself a commanding political voice.
Nakate's mere presence has revealed rampant inequalities within the climate justice movement. In January 2020, while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as one of five international delegates, including Thunberg, Nakate's image was cropped out of a photo by the Associated Press. The photo featured the four other activists, who were all white. It highlighted the call Nakate has been making all along: for both environmental and social justice on behalf of those who have been omitted from the climate discussion and who are now demanding to be heard.
From a shy little girl in Kampala to a leader on the world stage, A Bigger Picture is part rousing manifesto and part poignant memoir, and it presents a new vision for the climate movement based on resilience, sustainability, and genuine equity.
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Release date
November 2, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780358694939
- File size: 242010 KB
- Duration: 08:24:11
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Author Vanessa Nakate narrates her audiobook in English with a lovely Ugandan accent, but her subject is ugly: the impacts of climate change on Africa and the entire global south. Nakate started her life as a climate activist when she was in college by nervously protesting--alone or with some friends. She grew more active the more she learned about the relentless devastation climate change brings. It is not easy for a woman to take such a public role in Uganda, and authorities there are fairly hostile to public protests. Nakate's writing is informal and without pretension. Some listeners may find her narration a bit slow and lacking in the passion she clearly feels for her subject, but the importance of her message cannot be overlooked. G.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
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