Renowned climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate is waving the Ugandan flag on high after being featured on the cover of TIME magazine.
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TIME magazine has featured the activist in a feature titled Vanessa wants climate Justice for Africa.
In the feature, TIME magazine picks her mind on the current state, loopholes of the African climate, and reasons as to why she feels climate justice should prevail.
Nakate is a Uganda climate activist who started her activism in December 2018 after becoming concerned about the unusually high temperatures in the country.
In a “business as usual” tone, she took to her both her Facebook and Twitter and posted the cover page on which she features followed by the caption, “Young people realize what’s at stake. Young people see the kind of future they are walking into.”
She followed up the caption with a link to the Time magazine website feature.
Time Magazine as well posted the page copy on their Twitter handle and captioned, “Vanessa Nakate wants climate justice for Africa”
The Makerere University Business School (MUBS) graduate was inspired by Greta Thunberg to start her own climate movement in Uganda.
Nakate began a solitary strike against inaction on the climate crisis in January 2019. For several months she was the lone protester outside of the gates of the Parliament. Eventually, other youth began to respond to her calls on social media for others to help draw attention to the plight of the Congolian Rain Forest.
Nakate is in every sense the overachiever as she has been interviewed by Angelina Jolie, had a conversation with former UN Secretary-General Ban-ki-Moon, and has as well given a speech at the Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture.