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Author:

Maathai, Wangari. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87875843

Title:

Wangari Maathai's Registers of freedom / [edited and with an introductory essay] by Grace A. Musila.

Publisher:

National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences :

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

vii, 333 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Maathai, Wangari.
Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
Maathai, Wangari.
Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya)
Women conservationists--Kenya--Biography.
Environmentalists--Kenya--Biography.
Women politicians--Kenya--Biography.
Women political activists--Kenya--Biography.
Environmentalism--Kenya.
Nobel Prize winners--Kenya--Biography.
Kenya.
women politicians.
political action.
women's rights.
human rights.
environmental management.
biographies (form)
speeches (form)
Environmentalism.
Environmentalists.
Nobel Prize winners.
Women conservationists.
Women political activists.
Women politicians.
Kenya.
Biographies.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Musila, Grace A., editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011079164

Notes:

"Selected writings of Wangari Maathai, edited and with an introductory essay by Grace A. Musila"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-327) and index.

Contents:

Her life -- Her voice: selected writings of Wangari Maathai -- Her legacy.

Summary:

Wangari Maathai was a scholar, writer, environmental activist, human rights champion, and Nobel Prize laureatte. 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. -- From back cover.

Series:

Voices of liberation

ISBN:

0796925747
9780796925749

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1148322483

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)