Elizabeth's review
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
Wow. After being floored by seeing Wangari Maathai speak two years ago, I was suprised at the book's capacity to further rock my world. Guess the Nobel Peace Prize committee really knows their stuff. Her language is just as beautiful and simple as she is, her ideas are brilliant, and she has overcome as many mountains as she has saved.
Her project--mobilizing the disempowered women of Kenya to plant trees, beginning a green revolution in her country and preventing errosion--is humbly outlined in her gentle perfect English.
Cannot say enough good things. Hard to believe it is all true because, not only is it heroic, but she writes about it so beautifully you begin to imagine 'her' as a character and 'Kenya' as the fictional, vibrant setting of the drama.
Her project--mobilizing the disempowered women of Kenya to plant trees, beginning a green revolution in her country and preventing errosion--is humbly outlined in her gentle perfect English.
Cannot say enough good things. Hard to believe it is all true because, not only is it heroic, but she writes about it so beautifully you begin to imagine 'her' as a character and 'Kenya' as the fictional, vibrant setting of the drama.
