Wangari Maathai

The Challenge for Africa (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa. Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy, The Challenge for Africa celebrates the enduring potential of the human spirit, and reminds us that change is always possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409069478
• Artikelnr.: 39217099

Autorenporträt

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and served as Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 in recognition of her campaigns for democracy and environmental reform during the dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi. She died in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On the Wrong Bus
One The Farmer of Yaoundé
Two A Legacy of Woes
Three Pillars of Good Governance: The Three-Legged Stool
Four Aid and the Dependency Syndrome
Five Deficits: Indebtedness and Unfair Trade
Six Leadership
Seven Moving the Social Machine
Eight Culture: The Missing Link?
Nine The Crisis of National Identity
Ten Embracing the Micro-nations
Eleven Land Ownership: Whose Land Is It, Anyway?
Twelve Environment and Development
Thirteen Saving the Congo Forests
Fourteen The African Family
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

I hope the world will support her vision of hope Nelson Mandela