Africa’s youth in the race for climate action — Hilda Flavia Nakabuye

In Pursuit of Development

Fridays For Future is a youth-led movement that began in August 2018. This movement was inspired by 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists, who sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis. While Greta has become a household name, there are many other young activists around the world who are also making a vital contribution by pressuring their governments to undertake climate action.

Our guest – Hilda Flavia Nakabuye – is one of these inspiring young African leaders. While pursuing her university studies in Kampala, Hilda began to acquire a nuanced understanding of the causes of unpredictable rainy seasons, frequent heatwaves, droughts and floods that she had witnessed growing up in southern Uganda. Indeed, she began connecting the dots and realized that much of what she and her family had experienced (and what her country continues to experience) was and is caused by climate disruption. She therefore decided to become a climate and environmental rights activist and founded Uganda’s Fridays for Future movement in 2019. Twitter: @NakabuyeHildaF @Fridays4FutureU

Resources

• Fridays for Future
• Fridays for Future Uganda

Key highlights:

• Introduction - 00:38
• How to promote both development and protect the environment - 04:00
• Growing climate activismamong Africa’s youth- 08:56
• The menace of air pollution - 24:30
• Uganda’s oil and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline - 35:40

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Professor Dan Banik, University of Oslo, Twitter: @danbanik @GlobalDevPod

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