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- 2009417070 abstract "Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government; the establishment, in 1977, of 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; and how her courage and determination helped transform Kenya's government into the democracy in which she now serves.--From publisher description.".
- 2009417070 contributor B11588023.
- 2009417070 created "2007.".
- 2009417070 date "2007".
- 2009417070 date "2007.".
- 2009417070 dateCopyrighted "2007.".
- 2009417070 description "Beginnings -- Cultivation -- Education and the state of emergency -- American dream -- Independence-Kenya's and my own -- Foresters without diplomas -- Difficult years -- Seeds of change -- Fighting for freedom -- Freedom for Freedom -- Freedom turns a corner -- Aluta continua: the struggle continues -- Opening the gates of politics -- Rise up and walk.".
- 2009417070 description "Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government; the establishment, in 1977, of 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; and how her courage and determination helped transform Kenya's government into the democracy in which she now serves.--From publisher description.".
- 2009417070 extent "xvii, 326 p. :".
- 2009417070 identifier "9780307275202".
- 2009417070 issued "2007".
- 2009417070 issued "2007.".
- 2009417070 language "eng".
- 2009417070 publisher "New York : Anchor Books,".
- 2009417070 spatial "Kenya".
- 2009417070 subject "333.72092 B 22".
- 2009417070 subject "Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)".
- 2009417070 subject "Maathai, Wangari.".
- 2009417070 subject "SB63.M22 A3 2007".
- 2009417070 subject "Tree planters (Persons) Kenya Biography.".
- 2009417070 subject "Women conservationists Kenya Biography.".
- 2009417070 subject "Women politicians Kenya Biography.".
- 2009417070 tableOfContents "Beginnings -- Cultivation -- Education and the state of emergency -- American dream -- Independence-Kenya's and my own -- Foresters without diplomas -- Difficult years -- Seeds of change -- Fighting for freedom -- Freedom for Freedom -- Freedom turns a corner -- Aluta continua: the struggle continues -- Opening the gates of politics -- Rise up and walk.".
- 2009417070 title "Unbowed : a memoir / Wangari Muta Maathai.".
- 2009417070 type "text".