Unbowed : a memoir / Wangari Muta Maathai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maathai, Wangari, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maathai, Wangari.

Tree planters (Persons)--Kenya--Biography.

Tree planters (Persons).

Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya).

Women conservationists--Kenya--Biography.

Women conservationists.

Women politicians--Kenya--Biography.

Women politicians.

Kenya.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 326 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 2007.

Summary:

In "Unbowed," Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai's remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come.

Contents:

1: Beginnings

2: Cultivation

3: Education and the state of emergency

4: American dream

5: Independence-Kenya's and my own

6: Foresters without diplomas

7: Difficult years

8: Seeds of change

9: Fighting for freedom

10: Freedom turns a corner

11: Aluta continua: the struggle continues

12: Opening the gates of politics

13: Rise up and walk

Epilogue: Canopy of hope

Afterword to the Anchor Books edition.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

"First Anchor Books Edition, September 2007."

"Book design by M. Kristen Bearse."

"Cover design by Gabriele Wilson. Author photograph © Brigitte Lacombe. Illustration by Christopher Silas Neal."

"With a New Afterword"--Cover.

Includes index.

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Nonfiction, Winner, 2007

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

9780307275202 :

0307275205

OCLC:

316327591