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Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first woman to earn a doctorate in biology in East Africa. A recipient of numerous awards for her work on environmental and social issues, in 2004, she was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2006, she published her memoir,... show more

Wangari Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first woman to earn a doctorate in biology in East Africa. A recipient of numerous awards for her work on environmental and social issues, in 2004, she was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2006, she published her memoir, Unbowed. She lives in Nairobi, Kenya. To learn more about Wangari Maathai and her work, visit the Green Belt Movement website.
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Birth date: April 01, 1940
Died: September 25, 2011
Category:
Nonfiction, Politics, Women & Gender Studies
Wangari Maathai's Books
Unbowed - Wangari Maathai The Challenge for Africa - Wangari Maathai The Earth Charter in Action: Toward a Sustainable World - Peter Blaze Corcoran, Mikhail Gorbachev, Wangari Maathai Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment - Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Wangari Maathai, Dalai Lama XIV Little Hummingbird, The - Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Wangari Maathai The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience - Wangari Maathai, Jason Bock Bottom Is Heavy Too: Edinburgh Medal Lec... Bottom Is Heavy Too: Edinburgh Medal Lecture (Edinburgh Medal Lecture) - Wangari Maathai A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey... A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World - Cédric Delsaux, Bill McKibben, James E. Lovelock, Wangari Maathai The Little Hummingbird - Michael Yahgulanaas, Wangari Maathai The Canopy Of Hope: My Life Campaigning For Africa, Women, And The Environment - Wangari Maathai Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World - Wangari Maathai
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Merle
Merle rated it 6 years ago
text Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
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...
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Osho
Osho rated it 13 years ago
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Kenya. Wangari Maathai brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and evidence to this sweeping critique of colonial and post-colonial policy in Africa. Though she often gives examples from Kenya, she addresses issues from many African nations and micro-nations. I don't agree with all of her argument...
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miscellaneous debris
miscellaneous debris rated it 17 years ago
text Unbowed
Millions of trees have been planted because of Wangari Maathai and the movement she started. Her story gives me hope for humanity.
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