Download Unbowed: A Memoir AudioBook Free
Greatly charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of soul, Wangari Maathai, the champion of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and an individual mom of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.
Delivered in a rural community in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, decided to get an education even though most young girls were uneducated. We see her studying with Catholic missionaries, gaining bachelor’s and professional’s diplomas in america, and becoming the first girl both to earn a PhD in East and Central Africa and to head a college or university team in Kenya. We see her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi federal government. She makes clear the political and personal reasons that compelled her, in 1977, to determine the Green Belt Movements, which multiply from Kenya across Africa and which helps repair indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages. We observe how Maathai’s extraordinary courage and willpower helped change Kenya’s federal government in to the democracy where she now acts as associate minister for the surroundings and as a member of Parliament. And we are with her as she accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, given in acknowledgement of her “contribution to sustainable development, human protection under the law, and peacefulness.”
In Unbowed, Wangari Maathai provides an inspiriting subject matter of trust and wealth through self-sufficiency.
