· In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Maathai (Unbowed), a Kenyan biologist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for organizing the tree-planting Green Belt Movement, surveys Africa's struggle with poverty and disease, political violence, climate change, the legacy of colonialism and a global economy that's stacked against it/5(37). In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are Author: Wangari Maathai.
In The Challenge For Africa (Pantheon Books), Wangari Maathai offers a powerful and compelling look at the problems facing Africa and the promises of the future.. The trials that Africa faces are. The Challenge for Africa: A Conversation With Wangari Maathai. May 5, By Rachel Weisshaar. "Almost every conflict in Africa you can point at has something to do with competition over resources in an environment which has bad governance," said Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and recipient of the Nobel Peace. The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, Wangari Maathai offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenge facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds. The challenges facing Africa today are severe.
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. Subtitled ‘A new vision’, Wangari Maathai’s book is a clarion call for Africa’s cultural heritage to be refashioned and embedded into the continent’s development. She argues leaders should re-prioritise the duty of community service practised by their pre-colonial forebears and nurture the restoration of African culture. Wangari Maathai, the author of Unbowed, sees things differently, and here she argues for a moral revolution among Africans themselves. Illuminating the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, Maathai offers “hardheaded hope” and “realistic options” for change and improvement.
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