Unbowed : a memoir
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2006.
Status
Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
B Maathai, W.
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B Maathai, W.
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Published
New York : Knopf, 2006.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xvii, 314 pages, [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
UPC
9780307263483
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Maathai, W. (2006). Unbowed: a memoir . Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Maathai, Wangari. 2006. Unbowed: A Memoir. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: A Memoir Knopf, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: A Memoir Knopf, 2006.
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