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050	0	0	_aSB63.M22 _bA3 2007
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100	1		_aMaathai, Wangari.
245	1	0	_aUnbowed : _ba memoir / _cWangari Muta Maathai.
250			_a1st Anchor Books ed.
260			_aNew York : _bAnchor Books, _c2007.
300			_axvii, 326 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aMaathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village in 1940, she was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most girls were uneducated. We see her become the first woman both in East and Central Africa to earn a PhD and to head a university department in Kenya. We witness her numerous run-ins with the brutal Moi government; the establishment, in 1977, of the Green Belt Movement, which spread from Kenya across Africa and which helps restore indigenous forests while assisting rural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages; and how her courage and determination helped transform Kenya's government into the democracy in which she now serves.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aTree planters (Persons) _zKenya _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen conservationists _zKenya _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen politicians _zKenya _vBiography.
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