Overview
Region
East Africa
Kenya
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
About This Work
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.
Literary Significance
Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Maathai connected environmental destruction with political oppression and women's rights in a way no one had before