As Greta Thunberg and the Extinction Rebellion inspire climate protesters across the globe, young African activists say they still struggle to make themselves heard.
At the Climate Chance conference in Ghana's capital Accra this week hundreds of campaigners, local government officials and business people from across the continent sought a way forward. "As youth, we can't be putting our lives in insecurity by entering roads and doing something that Greta is doing," he told AFP.
Akwannuasah Gyimah, municipal chief executive of Asokwa in central Ghana, told AFP he was committed to increasing education about climate change to his constituents. Benin's former environment minister Luc Gnacadja said one problem was the lack of access to information and education on the issue. "They can't just go ahead and speak like Greta Thunberg, of course, the youth in Africa will have difficultly to say 'how dare you'," he said.The climate campaigner insisted that youth needed to be included in the debate -- and that often it is the people in power who need educating the most.