Unbowed: One Woman's Story
ISBN:
9780434016310 (0434016314)
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Environment,
Feminism,
Biography Memoir,
Kenya
I loved the first 50 pages of this memoir, covering the author’s childhood. Later on, though, it becomes more of a catalog of the many campaigns she was involved in and all her accomplishments – this is more an autobiography than a memoir – and it becomes rather impersonal and at times even a little...
Millions of trees have been planted because of Wangari Maathai and the movement she started. Her story gives me hope for humanity.