Wangari Maathai

Tabitha Kanogo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2020
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2417-9 (ISBN)

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Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa's most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long career as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of the Green Belt Movement, a conservation effort that resulted in the restoration of African forests decimated during the colonial era.

In this biography, Tabitha Kanogo follows Wangari Maathai from her modest, rural Kenyan upbringing to her rise as a national figure campaigning for environmental and ecological conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty until her death in 2011.

Tabitha Kanogo is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–50 and Squatters and the Roots of Mau Mau, both available from Ohio University Press.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	Ohio Short Histories of Africa
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	108 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8214-2417-3 / 0821424173
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2417-9 / 9780821424179
Zustand	Neuware