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Unbowed : a memoir /
Maathai, the winner of the 2004 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 village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were un...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0705/2006044729.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006044729-s.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2006044729-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2006044729-d.html |
Table of Contents:
- Beginnings
- Cultivation
- Education and the state of emergency
- American dream
- Independence-Kenya's and my own
- Foresters without diplomas
- Difficult years
- Seeds of change
- Fighting for freedom
- Freedom for Freedom
- Freedom turns a corner
- Aluta continua: the struggle continues
- Opening the gates of politics
- Rise up and walk.