Nakabuye Hilda Flavia, this young climate activist who challenges Museveni
Present at We Love Green, the greenest festival in France, Nakabuye Hilda Flavia intends to make Uganda's voice heard internationally.
By Eva Sauphie
Modified - Published on | The Point.fr
If Sweden has 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, a climate change leader who has become a global icon, Uganda has Nakabuye Hilda Flavia. Like her European counterpart, this 22-year-old economics student launches weekly calls for a strike under the now-famous "Fridays for Future", via the Kampala International University. Aim for Nakabuye Hilda Flavia and the thousands of young activists who have paraded around the world during the global climate march (15 March and 24 May 2019): make this issue a political priority.
Early climate activism ...
The activist attached to the Green Planet Africa association has already sent concrete demands to the climate change department of the Ugandan Ministry of Environment. "We want to declare the climate and ecological emergency in Uganda, as the British Parliament did at the beginning of May, to include a compulsory component on climate change in school curricula and to reduce the age of voting from 18 to 16 years old. . Not surprising given the average age of activists. 14-year-old Leah Namugerwa, 17-year-old Bob Matovu, 16-year-old Warlda Mirembe ... So many under-age students who have been calling the Hasidag government Museveni on the Web hoping for a better future for their country as they approach the presidential election of 2021.
In Kampala, young people question the authorities on their application of the ParisAgreements on the climate.
© DR... and justified by the Ugandan reality
Yet known for its stable and mild climate, with temperatures ranging from 1 to 2 degrees above or below 23 degrees, Uganda is largely impacted by climate change. Floods and plastic pollution are some of the country's major problems, but that's not counting the unusual temperature rises, which have caused droughts in the country for more than a year. And affect plant production and animal life. "My father is from Kyankole village in Masaka (Editor's note: located west of Lake Victoria). We usually go back regularly with my family. During my last visit, I noticed that all the plantations were dry and that there were no more cows, says Nakabuye Hilda Flavia. We had to do our food shopping in a mini market, which had never happened before. Especially since the food is very expensive. This environmental scourge is therefore not without consequences for the country's economy, which is essentially based on agriculture. According to the World Bank, the agricultural sector accounts for more than 24.6% of total GDP (April 2019) and more than 50% of the value of total exports, according to the World Bank.Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .
Lake Victoria is at the forefront of environmental issues. Nakabuye Hilda Flavia and the young people around her do not miss any opportunity to demonstrate.
© DRNakabuye Hilda Flavia locally involved
Also, the girl is at the forefront of the movement and contributes to change through local and participatory initiatives on social networks. With the movement # 7dayschallengeuganda (the 7-day challenge in Uganda), she invites youth with a green thumb to mobilize for the planet, in the field, as in the fishing village of Nakiwogo, bordering Lake Victoria, where young activists gathered to plant trees. During the strike movements, it is armed with a sign "Save our planet, save our future, the temperatures in Uganda climb. Let mama Africa Green "sensitize the inhabitants. "Since we joined the movement led by Greta Thunberg, Ugandans are more and more to join us, certifies the student.
The mobilization of Nakabuye Hilda Flavia also goes through social networks.
Growing mobilization around environmental issues
Last March, the mobilization gathered some 150 people in Kampala, according to Nakabuye Hilda Flavia, while the call to the May strike federated a dozen more people. Figures in progress, but which may seem derisory in comparison with the European countries (tens of thousands for Paris, 10,000 in Berlin and London in March) or South Africa (2,000 estimated participants in the Parliament of Cape Town Town and a little more in Pretoria last March).
Africa, until now little mobilized, is however ready to join the climatic cause. Along with Uganda, then, and South Africa with Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban, Kenya (Nairobi) has slowly followed suit. However, the environmental activist wants to emphasize that the fight for climate remains a global movement. "The different countries must interact and unite to make their voices heard across geographical borders," argues the one that will be present in France at the festival We Love Green alongside other representatives of the new generation climate .
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