Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist from Uganda . She was the First Fridays For Future climate activist in Uganda and founder of the Rise up Climate Movement, which aims to amplify the voices of activists from Africa. Her work includes raising awareness to the danger of climate change, the causes and the impacts. She spearheaded the campaign to save Congo’s rainforest, which is facing massive deforestation. This campaign later spread to other countries from Africa to Europe. She is working on a project that involves installation of solar and institutional stoves in schools.
She holds a degree in Business Administration in Marketing from Makerere University Business School. Vanessa was one of the young climate activists who were chosen to speak at the COP25 gathering in Spain, and she was one of 20 climate activists who penned a letter addressed a letter to the participants of the World Economic Forum in Davos, calling on them to stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
This November, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish 24-year-old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate’s book A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis. The book, which OprahMag.com is exclusively announcing today, is about Nakate’s road to empowerment, and how others can follow her lead.
“I couldn’t be more excited or proud to help bring Vanessa Nakate’s incredible, world-changing activism to readers,” acquiring editor Rakia Clark tells OprahMag.com. “Vanessa’s emerged as one of the most important and critical voices on climate justice and race. I can’t wait for American audiences to get more familiar with her work—and to be inspired to take action.”
