Climate justice activist Vanessa Nakate She started her environmental activism in December 2018 after becoming concerned about the unusually high temperatures in Uganda. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI | NMG
In January, there was a worldwide uproar when the Associated Press published a picture of four young climate activists—Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille— right after they had addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The problem was that there were five activists. Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate had been cropped out. “It really hurt me when I was cropped out of the photo. It was a hard time for me and I was frustrated, disturbed and wondering how things like this still happen, are happening and why it had happened,” Nakate recalled.
