Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom
Grace A Musila, editor | | ISBN: 978-0-7969-2574-9 $35.00 |
2020/334 pages
Voices of Liberation
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DESCRIPTION
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was a tireless social, environmental, and political activist, as well as an accomplished scholar. A champion of democracy and human rights, she worked tenaciously to dismantle the forces that limit people's access to a dignified life across the Global South and beyond.
Grace Musila astutely explores Maathai's life and multiple legacies and also presents a selection of the laureate’s essays and speeches.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Grace A Musila is an associate professor in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand.
CONTENTS
- Timeline of the Life of Wangari Maathai.
- HER LIFE.
- Introduction.
- Early Life: Under the Mugumo Tree.
- National Council of Women of Kenya.
- Electoral Politics.
- Countering Colonial Cultures of Nature.
- Green Belt Movement.
- Defending Uhuru Park and Karura Forest.
- Release Political Prisoners.
- Parliament and Beyond.
- Nobel Peace Prize, 2004.
- Conclusion: Planting Sustainable Futures.
- HER VOICE: SELECTED WRITINGS OF WANGARI MAATHAI.
- Beginnings.
- Foresters Without Diplomas.
- The Power of the Tree.
- The Commitment to Service.
- Environment and Development.
- Nobel Prize Speech.
- Rise Up and Walk!: The Third Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, 19 July 2005.
- Moving the Social Machine.
- HER LEGACY.
- Can the Earth Be Belted?—O. Okuyade.
- Kenya's Green Belt Movement—B. Taylor.
- Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor—R. Nixon.
- Stranger in the Ecovillage: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time—R. Nixon.
- Wangari Maathai Was Not a Good Woman—N. Nyabola.
- CONCLUSION.
