Kumi Naidoo to 2008, he was the Secretary General and chief executive officer of Johannesburg-based Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, which is dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world. He also served as the founding chairperson of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. Kumi Naidoo joined Greenpeace in 2009. He had been persuaded by his daughter Naomi to take on the role. Greenpeace's commitment to direct action and civil disobedience was what attracted Naidoo to the organisation. Naidoo saw his role as the executive director of Greenpeace as that of an alliance builder and an agent
Beverley Naidoo boyhood in Kenya of a second cousin, Neil Aggett, being set in the 1950s during the Mau Mau Uprising. Beverley Naidoo has also written several picture books, featuring children from Botswana and England. In 2004, she wrote the picture book "Baba's Gift", set in contemporary South Africa, with her daughter, Maya Naidoo. In "The Great Tug of War and Other Stories" she retells African folktales, the precursors of the Brer Rabbit tales. Beverley Naidoo Beverley Naidoo is a South African author of children's books who lives in the U.K. Her first three novels featured life in South Africa where she