“You can’t be what you can’t see.”
Marian Wright Edelman, American Civil Rights Activist.
Why a Podcast?
Environmental podcasts remain rare across Africa—and in francophone Africa, spaces centering women environmental leaders are even rarer. Yet across the continent, women are defending lands, forests, biodiversity, water and communities. They are organizing, mobilizing, innovating, transmitting knowledge and building solutions grounded in their realities.
Rooted in Africa’s long tradition of oral transmission, the Terra Mucho Podcast carries the voices, knowledge, and lived experiences of women shaping environmental justice initiatives in the Congo Basin and across francophone Africa—opening space for narratives that go beyond the narrow frames too often imposed on African women.
As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reminds us in her book, The Danger of a Single Story:
When we show a People as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, that is what they become. But when we reject the single story, when we realize there is never just one story about any place or any people, we regain a kind of paradise.
Each episode of the Terra Mucho Podcast contributes to that plurality—amplifying voices that are rarely heard, transmitting knowledge and inspiring future generations of women environmental leaders.
The Terra Mucho Podcast
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Our Guests
In the Terra Mucho Podcast, we bring forward the diversity of African women environmental leaders across civil society in francophone Africa—from grassroots innovators to national and global changemakers—creating space for them to speak in their own words, share their expertise, and shape narratives that reflect the full scope of their work and influence.
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