Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo (born 1965) is a South African-born human rights activist of Indian descent who is the current Secretary-General of Amnesty International. Naidoo was the first African head of Greenpeace, an international environmentalist group, serving as its International Executive Director from 2009 to 2015. After battling apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s through the Helping Hands Youth Organisation, Naidoo led global campaigns to end poverty and protect human rights. He has served as the Secretary-General of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and of Civicus, an international alliance for citizen participation, from 1998 to
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