Cultural Heritage: A Fountainhead For Africa’s Climate Action
A Climate Change piece, written in collaboration with Samson Ssewanyana, a Ugandan Environmental activist.
The exhaustive exploration of sub saharan Africa began in the 15th century, as Europeans looked for new trade routes to avoid taxes of the Arab and Ottoman empires.1 Subsequently, what started as a tax avoidance scheme, led into an unending staircase of systemic injustices against native Africans, and later their descendants. Among the historical injustices, perpetrated against African people over the centuries, the issue of cultural oppression has been widely overlooked. Cultural oppression played an enormous role in suffocating the advancement of African traditional sciences and technologies, in: textile, medicine, architecture, metallurgy, agriculture, astronomy, and cosmetology among others, and collapsed existing culturally preserved, natural and environmental knowledge systems which today can enhance climate action.
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