Unbowed
a memoir
by Wangari Maathai
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"Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls were then uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in the United States, and becoming the first woman both to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. She tells of her numerous run-ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasons that compelled her, in 1977, to establish the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa, and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages."--Cover.
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Women politicians, Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya), Tree planters (Persons), Nature, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Women conservationists, Biography, Tree planting, Women, biography, Kenya, biography, Women, political activity, Conservationists, Politicians, africa, Women, kenya, Planteurs d'arbres, Biographies, Femmes écologistes (Défenseuses de l'environnement), Femmes politiques, Personal Memoirs, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Real Estate, General, Conditions économiques, Conditions sociales, Mouvements sociaux, PoliticiensPeople
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Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)
September 4, 2007, Anchor
Paperback
in English
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0307275205 9780307275202
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Previously published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Includes index.
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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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