{"product_id":"9780796925749","title":"Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom","description":"Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was a tireless social, environmental, and political activist, as well as an accomplished scholar. A champion of democracy and human rights, she worked tenaciously to dismantle the forces that limit people's access to a dignified life across the Global South and beyond.\n \n Grace Musila astutely explores Maathai's life and multiple legacies and also presents a selection of the laureate's essays and speeches. \n CONTENTS: • Timeline of the Life of Wangari Maathai.\n • HER LIFE.\n • Introduction.\n • Early Life: Under theMugumoTree.\n • National Council of Women of Kenya.\n • Electoral Politics.\n • Countering Colonial Cultures of Nature.\n • Green Belt Movement.\n • Defending Uhuru Park and Karura Forest.\n • Release Political Prisoners.\n • Parliament and Beyond.\n • Nobel Peace Prize, 2004.\n • Conclusion: Planting Sustainable Futures.\n • HER VOICE: SELECTED WRITINGS OF WANGARI MAATHAI.\n • Beginnings.\n • Foresters Without Diplomas.\n • The Power of the Tree.\n • The Commitment to Service.\n • Environment and Development.\n • Nobel Prize Speech.\n • Rise Up and Walk!: The Third Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, 19 July 2005.\n • Moving the Social Machine.\n • HER LEGACY.\n • Can the Earth Be Belted?--O. Okuyade.\n • Kenya's Green Belt Movement--B. Taylor.\n • Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor--R. Nixon.\n • Stranger in the Ecovillage: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time--R. Nixon.\n • Wangari Maathai Was Not a Good Woman--N. Nyabola.\n • CONCLUSION.","brand":"Booksite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357818241139,"sku":"9780796925749","price":56.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/voices-of-liberation-wangari-maathai-books-28231159644275.jpg?v=1638284218","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.co.za\/products\/9780796925749","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}