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020			_a9780099493099
082			_a333.72092 _bMAA
100			_aMaathai, Wangari
245			_aUnbowed: a memoir
260			_bArrow Books, _c2008. _aLondon:
300			_axvii, 314 p. : ill. ; _bpb; _c20 cm.
365			_aINR _b499.00
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_a"Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya." "Born in a rural village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her studying with Catholic missionaries, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in the United States, and becoming the first woman both to earn a PhD in East and Central Africa and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government. She makes clear 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. We see how Maathai's extraordinary courage and determination helped transform Kenya's government into the democracy in which she now serves as assistant minister for the environment and as a member of Parliament. And we are with her as she accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in recognition of her "contribution to sustainable development, human rights, and peace."
650			_aEconomics- Land
650			_aWomen Conservationists
650			_aGreen Belt Movement Society- Kenya
650			_aWomen Politicians
650			_aTree Planters
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