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For the past 10 years, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has been on the front line of the struggle for environmental justice, climate justice and food sovereignty in Africa and the globe. It has been a decade of non-stop probing of the exploitation of resources, peoples and nations, which has given rise to numerous environmental and climate injustices. HOMEF has had a decade of witnessing and standing against the injustice, the powers and structures (industries and policies) suffocating the rights of the people to a healthy environment and standing with the neglected to take charge of their once self-managed food and agricultural systems. The struggle has necessitated the reawakening of communities' consciousness to the injustices that besiege them and to their 'people power' power to be utilized in seeking the desired change.mPolitics of Turbulent Waters is a compendium of selected articles in the 36 issues of the Eco-instigator published from 2013 to 2022. The Eco-instigator is yet another tool used by HOMEF to pull together thoughts and reports of activities that advance environmental justice and food sovereignty. Issue by issue, these thoughts and reports flow from within HOMEF and other environmental/climate justice and food sovereignty advocates from across Africa and the globe.They form this rich assemblage (Politics of turbulent waters) to commemorate HOMEF's 10th anniversary. The title of the book is one of Nnimmo Bassey's (the director of HOMEF) numerous articles that have graced some pages of the different issues of the Eco-instigator. The article cum title encapsulates the messages that the book intends to convey to you, the reader. It crystallizes the dire condition of Africa and its waters and the power imbalance together with the spatial disposition that plunged the continent into the calamitous environmental situation it faces. It speaks of the politics of economic development and market fundamentalism that avows to maintain the status quo in terms of destructive exploitation of Africa's marine and other natural resources.

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The Health of the Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) is an ecological think tank advocating for socio-ecological justice and food sovereignty in Nigeria and Africa at large. Exploitation of Nature is, HOMEF state, a reflection of the unjust relations between people and the social political, gender, economic, crisises in society. Dissatisfied with the impunity in our environment, The rights of Mother Earth must be safe guarded; Communities should be equipped to voice protest against oppression and pollution in their environment; Justice must prevail in our engagement with the environment and nature's cycles at policy, corporate, and individual level. Nnimmo Basseyis a Nigerianarchitect, environmental activist, authorandpoet, who chairedFriends of the Earth Internationalfrom 2008 through 2012and was executive director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades.He was one ofTime magazine'sHeroes of the Environment in 2009.In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named a Laureate of theRight Livelihood Award, and in 2012, he was awarded theRafto Prize.He also received anhonorary doctoratefrom theUniversity of York, UK, in 2019. He serves on theadvisory boardand is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank andadvocacyorganization.

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