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Wangari Maathai was a scholar, writer, environmental activist, human rights champion, and Nobel Prize laureate. In her life and thought, she tenaciously sought to expose the precarious lives of people across a variety of communities: women, rural communities, political prisoners, Kenyans, Africans, and citizens of the global South saddled with the burdens of international debt. She also intervened practically to dismantle the forces that limit people's access to a dignified life. Wangari Maathai is, without a doubt, a worthy and relevant subject for the latest addition to the series, Voices of Liberation. She was committed to service and felt strongly about the principle of servant leadership, a timely and urgent issue not only for sub-Saharan Africa but, indeed, for the world. Wangari Maathai: Registers of Freedom explores the multiple legacies of her life and offers readers a glimpse into the life and thought of one of the 20th century's most remarkable woman.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
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
2004 Nobel Prize for Peace
Conclusion: Planting sustainable futures
HER VOICE
Beginnings
Foresters without diplomas
The Power of the Tree
Environment and Development
Pillars of Good Governance: The Three-Legged Stool
The Commitment to Service
Moving the Social Machine
Nobel Prize Speech
Rise up and Walk! The Third Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, 19 July 2005
HER LEGACY
Can the Earth be belted?
Kenya's green belt
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Stranger in the ecovillage
Wangari Maathai was not a good woman
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Index
