Wangari Maathai: The Challenge for Africa

Cover: 9780307390288 | The Challenge for Africa | Wangari Maathai | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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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 among Africans themselves. Illuminating the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, Maathai offers "hardheaded hope" and "realistic options" for change and improvement. She deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and accountability. Impassioned and empathetic, The Challenge for Africa is a book of immense importance.

Über den Autor

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted 40 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya’s Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003, she was appointed Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, a post she held until 2007, when she left the government. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2004, Matthai has been honored around the world for her work, including an appointment to the Legion d’Honneur by France and the Order of the Rising Sun by Japan. She is the author of two previous books: The Green Belt Movement and Unbowed, a memoir, and she regularly speaks to organizations around the world. Maathai died in 2011.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: On the Wrong Bus

One The Farmer of Yaoundé

Two A Legacy of Woes

Three Pillars of Good Governance: The Three-Legged Stool

Four Aid and the Dependency Syndrome

Five Deficits: Indebtedness and Unfair Trade

Six Leadership

Seven Moving the Social Machine

Eight Culture: The Missing Link?

Nine The Crisis of National Identity

Ten Embracing the Micro-nations

Eleven Land Ownership: Whose Land Is It, Anyway?

Twelve Environment and Development

Thirteen Saving the Congo Forests

Fourteen The African Family

Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780307390288
ISBN-10:	0307390284
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Maathai, Wangari
Hersteller:	Penguin Random House LLC
Maße:	207 x 131 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Wangari Maathai
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.10.2010
Gewicht:	0,34 kg

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