Unbowed, a memoir, Wangari Muta Maathai
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Unbowed, a memoir, Wangari Muta Maathai
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
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illustrationsplates
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Unbowed
Oclc number
48959065341312
Responsibility statement
Wangari Muta Maathai
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
From the Publisher: In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai's remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come
Table Of Contents
Beginnings -- Cultivation -- Education and the state of emergency -- American dream -- Independence-Kenya's and my own -- Foresters without diplomas -- Difficult years -- Seeds of change -- Fighting for freedom -- Freedom for Freedom -- Freedom turns a corner -- Aluta continua: the struggle continues -- Opening the gates of politics -- Rise up and walk
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