It's a matter of life and death for this country, ... The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.