Vanessa Nakate
Vanessa Nakate (born November 15, 1996 ) is a Ugandan climate protection activist who is committed to Fridays for Future in Uganda, among other things .
Life
Origin and education
Nakate grew up in the Ugandan capital Kampala . She holds a degree in business administration from Makerere University , which she obtained in January 2019.
Climate protection activist
Nakate started her commitment to the climate in December 2018 because of the unusually high temperatures in her home country, which were measured in Kampala after a heat wave from October to December 2018. In January 2019, she and her siblings started on strike in front of the Ugandan parliament building . Many of the students she asked to protest with her canceled out of fear of punishment. She had to postpone the strikes first, as she didn't have the money to have the posters printed. Nakate is the chairman of an initiative that aims to protect the tropical rainforest in Congo . Another of her concerns is to teach children in Africa more about the causes and consequences of climate change . She founded the organization Youth for Future Africa and the African Rise Up Movement .
In December 2019, she took part in the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid .
Controversy over press picture
In January 2020 she was present at the World Economic Forum in Davos . At a press conference there, she said that it was not enough for the business elite to listen to activists like her, but that they had to act if they did not want to ignore the activists. A photo in an article by the Associated Press (AP) about the climate activists present in Davos was cropped so that Nakate, who was actually on the left edge of a press photo , was no longer shown. Instead, only the white activists were shown. The AP resold the picture to newspaper publishers, who now also used this picture in the cropped version. The procedure sparked a racism debate, as Vanessa Nakate was the only one removed from the picture. Nakate himself commented on Twitter as follows: “You didn't just delete a photo. You deleted a continent. ”The press agency then apologized to her.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anne Backhaus, DER SPIEGEL: Climate activist Vanessa Nakate on her accusation of racism against AP - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Vanessa Nakate: For my birthday, ... In: Twitter. November 15, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ a b 3 young black climate activists in Africa trying to save the world. Greenpeace, accessed January 28, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ a b c Frank Kisakye: 22-year-old Nakate takes on lone climate fight. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ El País: Greta Thunberg in Madrid: “I hope world leaders grasp the urgency of the climate crisis” . In: El País . December 6, 2019, ISSN 1134-6582 (English, elpais.com [accessed January 28, 2020]).
- ^ Ryan Bort, Ryan Bort: A Rolling Stone Roundtable With the Youth Climate Activists Fighting for Change in Davos. In: Rolling Stone. January 23, 2020, accessed March 9, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Climate change: What's Greta been saying at the COP25 conference in Madrid? - CBBC Newsround . (English, bbc.co.uk [accessed January 28, 2020]).
- ↑ Somini Sengupta: Greta Thunberg Joins Climate March on Her Last Day in Davos . In: The New York Times . January 24, 2020, ISSN 0362-4331 (English, nytimes.com [accessed January 28, 2020]).
- ↑ Margarete Stokowski , DER SPIEGEL: Margarete Stokowski on racism: Was there someone there? - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
- ↑ DAVOS 2020: Why this picture of young climate activists causes outrage ; Video from Die Welt , January 25, 2020
- ↑ You didn't just erase a photo ... , Vanessa Nakate on Twitter on January 25, 2020 (with image comparison)
- ↑ Photo cropping mistake leads to AP soul-searching on race. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nakate, Vanessa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ugandan climate activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1996 |