Wangari Maathai (1940–2011)
Teoksen Unbowed: A Memoir tekijä
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Wangari Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted over forty-five million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament, and in 2003, she was appointed deputy minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, posts she held until 2007. näytä lisää Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. In 2009, she was appointed a United Nations Messenger of Peace by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. näytä vähemmän
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Wangari Muta Maathai
- Muut nimet
- Маатаи, Вангари
- Syntymäaika
- 1940-04-01
- Kuolinaika
- 2011-09-25
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Kenya
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- Kenia
- Kuolinsyy
- Krebserkrankung
- Asuinpaikat
- Ihithe, Kenya (birth)
- Koulutus
- Mount St. Scholastica (BS|Biology)
University of Pittsburgh (MS)
University of Nairobi (PhD|Veterinary Medicine) - Ammatit
- biologiste, enseignante
- Organisaatiot
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated - honorary member
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Nobel Prize (Peace, 2004)
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and assistant minister for the environment in 2003-2005 after significant struggles and opposition in her journey to get there.
I enjoyed her descriptions of rural village life in Kenya in the 1940s and 50s. I also appreciated her recount of the difficulties she faced getting involved in politics and environmentalism, in particular the challenge of being expected to be subservient as an African woman.
I did feel, however, that the memoir was much less personal as it went on, and more about her public life and achievements. There was very little comment on her feelings and personal life as an adult. She faced great difficulties after her very public divorce and at one point had to leave her children with her ex-husband, but very little is detailed about any of this or her response to it. Overall I found this to be a powerful story of courage and persistence by an inspiring woman.… (lisätietoja)