History, Narrative and Carbon Credits – A conversation with Mordecai Ogada (part 2)

Maisha Kazini

Although carbon offsets have been exposed as an environmental pyramid scheme, the Kenyan government and Kenyan communities have signed off land to foreign interests under the scheme.

How do such scams appear logical to Kenyan officials and, most of all, to the communities who are the victims?

Dr. Ogada explains the certain underlying racist narratives and institutional corruption which make these scams look perfectly logical to vulnerable Kenyans.