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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

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And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

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We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

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Biography

Nationality: Kenyan

Type: Activist

Born: April 1st, 1940

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