Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa is a vital resource for understanding climate vulnerability and justice, both in Eastern Africa and globally. By centering the lived realities of one of the world's most climate-vulnerable regions, this book exposes the deep structural inequalities that shape how communities experience environmental crises. By bridging theory and practice, the book redefines climate justice through an African lens, essential for scholars, policymakers, and activists committed to inclusive climate action. A decolonial triumph and a call to listen, especially to those most affected.

Ngcimezile Mbano-Mweso, Senior Lecturer and Head of Public Law and Clinical Legal Education, University of Malawi

This book is boldly unconventional – containing contributions by academics and activists that are interspersed with creative pieces, privileging voices from the Eastern African region, and foregrounding the embodied and real-life experiences of climate change by diverse local communities. Doing so, it exemplifies the new modes of knowledge production, or better: co-production, required in the face of the current climate crisis: African-centred, pluriversal, transdisciplinary, inclusive and transformational. Together, the contributions demonstrate passionately and urgently the need for, and value of, an intersectional approach to climate justice.

Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds, UK; author of 'Kenyan, Christian, Queer'

The strive of this book, to bring together a community of researchers, activists, and creatives, underscores the efforts to bring to the fore voices of the most impacted and transform the complex politics of knowledge production, and ultimately, its use. This book is a live challenge to all to explore appropriate channels to center outcomes in the policy process as well as new methodological approaches. It will serve as a useful tool for those advocating for climate justice in Eastern Africa and fighting with communities at the frontline of the climate crisis.

Philip Kilonzo, Head of Policy, Advocacy and Communication, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Kenya

This book powerfully illustrates two key dimensions of climate justice. First, that local people facing the brunt of the climate crisis hold knowledge, ideas, and solutions rooted in lived experience - wisdom that must inform policy and practice. Second, that equitable access to and governance of healthy ecosystems by marginalized groups offers the most just, feasible, and sustainable path to climate resilience - because it centers basic human rights. Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa is a vital and timely contribution that affirms the power of local leadership and the urgency of justice-driven climate action.

Barbara Nakangu, Senior Manager of the People Powering Biodiversity Program, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Uganda

Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa is a vital and timely contribution to climate discourse. It powerfully illuminates how gender, class, ethnicity, and governance intersect with environmental vulnerability in one of the world's most affected regions. Grounded in local realities and rich in analysis, the book challenges one-size-fits-all climate solutions and advocates for inclusive, context-specific approaches. Essential reading for policymakers, activists, and scholars seeking equitable climate action rooted in justice and resilience.

Beverly Musonda Mushili, Lecturer in Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development at University of Zambia and PhD Candidate in Environment and Society at University of Pretoria, South Africa

Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa is a landmark contribution to climate literature, urgent, expansive, and deeply grounded. By exploring the climate crisis through the intersecting lenses of gender, displacement, energy access, land rights, and Indigenous knowledge, this volume powerfully illuminates the structural inequalities embedded in global climate discourse. Its regional focus on Eastern Africa reveals the rich diversity of lived experiences and offers transformative insights into climate justice. With voices from scholars, activists, and artists, many rooted in the region, the book not only decolonizes climate narratives but reimagines the methodologies we use to understand them. A must-read for anyone committed to climate justice, equity, and epistemic transformation.

Kariuki Muigua, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, Kenya