Wangari Maathai

by Kanogo, Tabitha M.

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Full title :Wangari Maathai / Tabitha Kanogo.

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"Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011) is one of Africa's most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long career as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of the Green Belt Movement, a conservation effort that resulted in the restoration of African forests decimated during the colonial era. In this biography, Tabitha Kanogo follows Wangari Maathai from her modest, small-town Kenyan upbringing to her rise as an international figure campaigning for environmental and ecological conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty until her death in 2011."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ohio University Press
Place of Publication:Athens, Ohio
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:189 pages ; : 18 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780821424179, 0821424173
oclc:on1127895001
LC Classification:SB63.M22
Dewey Decimal:333.72092

Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : Wangari Maathai, the global icon -- Childhood and education, 1940-71 -- Marriage, employment, and public service, 1967-87 -- Green Belt Movement : Environmental conservation, 1977-2005 -- Urban warrior : Karura Forest, Uhuru Park, and Mothers of Political Prisoners, 1989-2002 -- Maathai the politician, 1982-2005 -- Conclusion --Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

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Biographies Biography Femmes écologistes (Défenseuses de l'en… Femmes politiques -- Biographies. -- Ke… Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) Kenya Maathai, Wangari Nobel Prize winners Nobel Prize winners -- Biography. -- Ke… TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture … Women conservationists Women conservationists -- Biography. --… Women politicians Women politicians -- Biography. -- Kenya