Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai

Unbowed: My Autobiography

Wangari Maathai

314 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced

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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 studi...

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