Wangari Maathai's Registers of Freedom (Voices of Liberation)

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.

Grace Musila astutely explores Maathai’s life and multiple legacies and also presents a selection of the laureate’s essays and speeches.
CONTENTS:
* Timeline of the Life of Wangari Maathai.
* HER LIFE.
* Introduction.
* Early Life: Under the Mugumo Tree.
* National Council of Women of Kenya.
* Electoral Politics.
* Countering Colonial Cultures of Nature.
* Green Belt Movement.
* Defending Uhuru Park and Karura Forest.
* Release Political Prisoners.
* Parliament and Beyond.
* Nobel Peace Prize, 2004.
* Conclusion: Planting Sustainable Futures.
* HER VOICE: SELECTED WRITINGS OF WANGARI MAATHAI.
* Beginnings.
* Foresters Without Diplomas.
* The Power of the Tree.
* The Commitment to Service.
* Environment and Development.
* Nobel Prize Speech.
* Rise Up and Walk!: The Third Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, 19 July 2005.
* Moving the Social Machine.
* HER LEGACY.
* Can the Earth Be Belted?―O. Okuyade.
* Kenya's Green Belt Movement―B. Taylor.
* Slow Violence, Gender, and the Environmentalism of the Poor―R. Nixon.
* Stranger in the Ecovillage: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time―R. Nixon.
* Wangari Maathai Was Not a Good Woman―N. Nyabola.
* CONCLUSION.