The progressive disappearance of biodiversity due to industrial plantations, mining, and other extractive activities, as well as climate change, has aggravated land dispossession across the continent.
Indigenous women of the Tepeth and Benet Mosopisyek communities call out Tororo Cement Limited (TCL), which is polluting their territories and buying out communal land. Together, they laid out powerful demands in defence of their ancestral lands, life and livelihoods
… 98% of Nigeria’s export wealth comes from oil extracted from Ogoniland. But no one here—apart from local elites—is seeing any of that money.” A short reflection on women’s and community struggles against climate catastrophe and extractivism across Africa
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