Martha Agbani

Martha Agbani is a Nigerian environmental activist. She is the founding director of the Lokiaka Community Development Center, which advocates for the rights of indigenous Ogoni women farmers. Quote “Water is my life, my identity, my livelihood. I cannot live without water. Girls miss school when there is no water and school doesn’t stop which means they lose out on education.” Feminist Approach to Water Justice in Africa Ndana "That over-dependence has been leading to a lot of violence, too" Nigerian activist trying to sell plants to the oil company that destroyed them The stories of the sufferings of my people kept coming to my ears and I kept asking myself what I could do to alleviate these challenges that women are having. When we started, the idea was alien to many people. They said mangroves cannot be planted because we grew up to meet them; so if they are dead now, we don’t know what killed them. Martha Agbani, the Ogoni activist empowering women through mangrove restoration Internal Link