Until the Lion Tells the Story: Culture as the beating heart of climate justice

Kumi Naidoo’s article co commissioned by Arts Hub and Creative Climate and published now on Arts Hub.

Kumi Naidoo - Activist, Human being, 'Good' Trouble-maker is President of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and Co-founder of  Global Artivism Movement. For over 40 years, Kumi Naidoo has been a voice amongst many for social, economic and environmental justice.

From his humble township upbringing in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, to his work as an anti-Apartheid activist, to his leadership of international NGOs, Kumi has remained rooted in Martin Luther King’s Creative Maladjustment principles - refusing to normalize inequality and devoting himself to exposing injustice.