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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
(New York: Lantern Books, )
The Green Belt Movement tells the story of how an organisation grew from one woman’s idea to a network of hundreds of thousands of men and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya. Professor Maathai explores the challenges of grassroots organising and campaigning, and elucidates the key principles and practical concerns involved in running an environmental non-governmental organisation.
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Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai () was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth. As well as having been featured in a number of books, she and the Green Belt Movement were the subject of a documentary film, Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai (Marlboro Productions, ).
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya (Africa), in She obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (), a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (), and pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, before obtaining a Ph.D. () from the University of Nairobi, where she also taught veterinary anatomy. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Professor Maathai became chair of the Department of Veterina
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Unbowed: A Memoir
Maathai, the winner of the 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 by in , 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 , of the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women bygd 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 servesFrom publisher description.