“It’s as if Africa doesn’t matter. [Western big bosses] are too busy focusing on privileged countries and they abandon our communities, who have been suffering for decades, but the world does not revolve around the West!”
Speaking in January at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, did Ugandan environmental activist Vanessa Nakate sense that the road ahead would be long and fraught with difficulties?
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