East Africa
Kenya
Contemporary
English
Memoir
Maathai's memoir of founding the Green Belt Movement — which planted over 50 million trees across Africa — her years of persecution under Moi, imprisonment, and the Nobel Peace Prize she received in 2004.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Maathai connected environmental destruction with political oppression and women's rights in a way no one had before
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editorial-summarynot primary textMaathai's memoir of founding the Green Belt Movement — which planted over 50 million trees across Africa — her years of persecution under Moi, imprisonment, and the Nobel Peace Prize she received in 2004. Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Maathai connected environmental destruction with political oppression and women's rights in a way no one had before
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