Jumia Books Unbowed One Woman's Story By Wangari Maathai

Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (/wænˈɡɑːri mɑːˈtaɪ/; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.[1] As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift she studied in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from Mount St. Scholastica and a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She tells of her numerous run ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasons that compelled her in to establish 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