Climate activism through literature

About The Green we Left Behind Project

The Green we Left Behind is a climate change awareness project founded by Adaeze M. Nwadike in 2021. Under the umbrella of Arts Lounge Literary Magazine, its main goal is to use literature and the Arts as tools of awareness, education and all else, in climate change activism and environmental justice.

So far, Arts Lounge has carried out a total of six national scale projects on climate change, which include:

1) The Green we Left Behind: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction Stories from Nigeria on Climate Change. Sponsored by The French Embassy in Nigeria, The French Institute in Nigeria, Cookingpot publishing, USA, AND edited by Unoma Azuah and Adaeze M. Nwadike.

2) The Green we Left Behind: Visual Narrative of the Climate Crises in Nigeria. Sponsored by the French Embassy in Nigeria, Brittle paper, and curated by Adaeze M. Nwadike.

3) The Green we Left Behind: A Collection of Inter-generational stories on Climate Change from Nigeria. Funded by UMIFund, supported by Parents for Future Nigeria and Our Kids climate, edited by Unoma Azuah and Adaeze M. Nwadike.

4) The Green we Left Behind: A Guide to Involving Children from the Global South in Climate Action developed by Adaeze M. Nwadike.

5) On going: The Green we Left Behind: Climate change Poetry Slam. In partnership with The French Embassy in Nigeria, The French Institute in NIgeria, Cookingpot publishing, USA and curated by Adaeze M. Nwadike

6) Scheduled: The Green Photo book launch, in partnership with The French Embassy in Nigeria, curated by Adaeze M. Nwadike.