Giovanna MacKenna

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai – “Eco”

By Gillian Burke ENVIRONMENTALISM is a movement tied up in multiple knots of complicated science, a shared concern for our shared home. The word ‘eco’ has become so overused that […]

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai – Environmentalism

  By Gillian Burke ENVIRONMENTALISM is a white, middle-class privilege. I hear this a lot. This is the fourth post in my takeover series about Professor Wangari Maathai who was […]

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai – Far from Home

By Gillian Burke WHAT would it have been like for the young Wangari Maathai? Her home was a colony under British Rule that, by the late 50s, was brutally suppressing the […]

Gillian Burke on Wangari Maathai

GILLIAN BURKE is a natural history television programme producer and presenter, and a voiceover artist. She has been a co-presenter of the BBC nature series Springwatch and its spin-offs since […]

Open the Door 2020 – Book Bunk booklist

Book Bunk is a Kenyan charitable trust focused on the complete renovation and restoration of old library spaces as well as the installation of new libraries into public spaces. We also manage the curation and programming of these spaces.

Open the Door 2020’s Trans booklist

With thanks to writer and performer Harry Josephine Giles for giving us access to this Goodreads booklist.   Nevada by Imogen Binnie Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griffiths, […]

Open the Door 2020’s Nature booklist

Curated by Gillian Burke Gillian Burke – who is leading an Open the Door takeover on Thursday May 21st – is a natural history television programme producer, a voiceover artist, […]

Open the Door 2020’s BAME booklist

Curated by Azita Jabbari