
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman's extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.

Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.


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Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries,...


