The Challenge for Africa - Hardcover

Maathai, Wangari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307377407 ISBN 13: 9780307377401

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2009

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Book by Maathai Wangari

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Reseña del editor:

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.

The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging. Yet what we see of them in the media, more often than not, are tableaux vivantes connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai presents a different vision, informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy. She illuminates the complex and dynamic nature of the continent, and offers “hardheaded hope” and “realistic options” for change and improvement. With clarity of expression, Maathai analyzes the most egregious “bottlenecks to development in Africa,” occurring at the international, national, and individual levels–cultural upheaval and enduring poverty among them–and 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.

Biografía del autor:

Wangari Maathai was elected to Kenya’s parliament in 2002 and in 2003 was appointed Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources, and Wildlife. She is also the author of a memoir,Unbowed, and speaks to organizations around the world. She lives in Nairobi.

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307377407
• ISBN 13: 9780307377401
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 319