Full Description
This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and social justice and who inspired action to protect our natural habitats. This collection explores the various strategies Maathai employed in her speeches to create memorable images and arguments for audiences in Kenya and around the world. Specifically, authors examine Maathai's use of storytelling, her creative use of metaphor and local cultural knowledge, and her use of sharp social-political analysis. Authors approach Maathai's rhetoric from both African and Western ways of knowing.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wangari Maathai and Social Justice Advocacy
Alberto González, Eddah M. Mutua, and Anke Wolbert
Part I: Africa and the Rhetoric of the Green Belt Movement
Chapter One: Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai's Peacebuilding Rhetoric
Kundai V. Chirindo
Chapter Two: Envisioning Peace and Reconciliation for Kenya: Wangari Maathai's 2008 Peace Tent Opening Ceremony Address
Anke Wolbert
Chapter Three: The Rhetorical Potency of Storytelling: The Narrative Role of the Hummingbird in the Green Belt Movement
Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey
Chapter Four: Heroic Transverser: A Rhetorical Analysis of Representations of Wangari Maathai
Wanjiru G. Mbure
Chapter Five: Wangari Maathai's Rhetorical Vision: Empowerment through Education
Ahmet Atay
Chapter Six: The Green Belt Movement and Rhetoric of African Development Communication
Stella-Monica Mpande and Cleophas Tauri Muneri
Part II: Planting the Future: Sustaining Agency in and beyond the Green Belt Movement
Chapter Seven: The Rhetorical Significance of Maathai's Environmental Advocacy to Critical Intercultural Communication and Black Feminisms
Rachel Alicia Griffin and Gloria Nziba Pindi
Chapter Eight: Wangari Maathai and Mottainai: Gifting "Cultural Appropriation" with Cultural Empowerment
Etsuko Kinefuchi
Chapter Nine: Daughter of the Soil: Wangari Maathai's Rhetorical Vision of Environmental Justice and Reform
Reynaldo Anderson and D.L. Stephenson
Chapter Ten: Growing the Next Generation: The Sustainability of Wangari Maathai's Rhetoric of Environmentalism
Ellen W. Gorsevski
Chapter Eleven: Planting the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai
Eddah M. Mutua and Susan M. Kilonzo
References
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
