The Challenge for Africa

Wangari Maathai (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2010
Arrow Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-09-953903-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2010
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 129 x 198 mm
• Gewicht: 268 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 0-09-953903-9 / 0099539039
• ISBN-13: 978-0-09-953903-2 / 9780099539032
• Zustand: Neuware