Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is the third webinar of the webinar series 'African environmentalism of soil'. Across three sessions, the webinar series seeks to restore soil’s ecological, cultural and ethical significance by linking traditional knowledge with modern science and by placing soil within broader struggles for land justice and environmental sovereignty in Africa.

This webinar focuses on:

What if one of Africa’s greatest liberation thinkers was also a soil scientist?

Amilcar Cabral understood over 75 years ago that soil ecology and political liberation were inseparable. This closing session marks the launch of “To Defend the Earth Is to Defend the Human”, a new publication exploring Cabral’s remarkable contribution to what we might now call soil social science.

In this session, we will trace how his understanding of soil was rooted in a politics of human dignity and ask: what does Cabral’s legacy demand of how we teach and institutionalise environmental knowledge today?


Find out more about the project: https://thefifthelement.earth/activity/africa-climate-and-education/