Unbowed
by Wangari Maathai
Thirty million trees. Nobel Prize. Short version.
ou want to understand environmental activism as political resistance as feminism as African tradition — all at once
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Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977 — training rural Kenyan women to plant trees, restore degraded land, and in doing so reclaim their dignity and political agency. The Kenyan government imprisoned her, beat her, tried to destroy her. She kept planting. This memoir is the dispatch from inside a life that understood that the land and the people are the same question. The most hopeful book on the East Africa shelf and the most practically radical.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Kenya • East Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Kenyan author
- Themes
- After EmpireBuilders & HealersWitness
