Aziba Ekio received a special Jury Prize on this year's Young Climate Prize!
Countering the statistical numbness of conversations surrounding the climate crisis, Aziba Ekio provides a vivid portrait of the “subtle, emotional, and social effects” of climate change on the Nigerian population through her writing. Her locality, Abuja, is already facing the effects of global warming that the majority of the global North is yet to see, and her poem anthology, The color, Green, is her “contribution to the fight for climate action. It contains 50 poems about the material impacts of extreme weather and pollution on her own life, and the lives of others who receive minimal media attention.
As said by the Jury: “As one of the oldest tools of communication, poetry still manages to remain so powerful today, and helps to grow a collective weight around issues. Aziba’s poetry is extremely stirring, uplifting, passionate, and moving, and her strong voice in the fight to tackle the climate crisis will undoubtedly be heard.”
Ekio´s Young Climate Prize mentor was founder and director of Counterspace and architect, Sumayya Vally.
