Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom

SKU: 9780796925749
VOICES OF LIBERATION - WANGARI MAATHAI Books

Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom

SKU: 9780796925749
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Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was a tireless social, environmental, and political activist, as well as an accomplished scholar. A champion of democracy and human rights, she worked tenaciously to dismantle the forces that limit people's access to a dignified life across the Global South and beyond. Grace Musila astutely explores Maathai's life and multiple legacies and also presents a selection of the laureate's essays and speeches. CONTENTS: • Timeline of the Life of Wangari Maathai. • HER LIFE. • Introduction. • Early Life: Under theMugumoTree. • National Council of Women of Kenya. • Electoral Politics. • Countering Colonial Cultures of Nature. • Green Belt Movement. • Defending Uhuru Park and Karura Forest. • Release Political Prisoners. • Parliament and Beyond. • Nobel Peace Prize, 2004. • Conclusion: Planting Sustainable Futures. • HER VOICE: SELECTED WRITINGS OF WANGARI MAATHAI. • Beginnings. • Foresters Without Diplomas. • The Power of the Tree. • The Commitment to Service. • Environment and Development. • Nobel Prize Speech. • Rise Up and Walk!: The Third Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, 19 July 2005. • Moving the Social Machine. • HER LEGACY. • Can the Earth Be Belted?--O. Okuyade. • Kenya's Green Belt Movement--B. Taylor. • Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor--R. Nixon. • Stranger in the Ecovillage: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time--R. Nixon. • Wangari Maathai Was Not a Good Woman--N. Nyabola. • CONCLUSION.

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Format
Paperback
Reading age
18+
Pages
333
Publisher
uHlanga
Language
English
ISBN
9780796925749

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