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xvii, 326 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm, 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, Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, Acknowledgments -- 1: Beginnings -- 2: Cultivation -- 3: Education and the state of emergency -- 4: American dream -- 5: Independence-Kenya's and my own -- 6: Foresters without diplomas -- 7: Difficult years -- 8: Seeds of change -- 9: Fighting for freedom -- 10: Freedom turns a corner -- 11: Aluta continua: the struggle continues -- 12: Opening t

Who reads Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage)?

Author

Maathai, Wangari, author

Publisher

New York : Anchor Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307275202

Category

history

Subjects

Agriculture, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.04 / 5 (305 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14