“You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.”
―
The Country 
OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Kenya
CAPITAL: Nairobi
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English, Kiswahili
POPULATION: 48.4 Million
LAND AREA RANK: 24th largest in Africa
LITERACY RATE: 78%
”African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are – to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
– Wangari Maathai
The Book
TITLE: Unbowed
AUTHOR: Wangari Maathai
PUBLISHED: 2007
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, was the first east African woman to obtain a PhD and a well-known activist and politician in the country who started the Green Belt Movement in 1977.
This book is her autobiographical memoir, starting from her life as a young girl in British colonial Kenya (until independence in 1963), to the woman and states-person she became. An inspiration to women and girls in her country and across the world, her musings should be very valuable in a world increasingly in need of care for our environments and for each other.
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