Ebook: The Challenge for Africa

On the wrong bus -- The farmer of Yaoundé -- A legacy of woes -- Pillars of good governance: the three-legged stool -- Aid and the dependency syndrome -- Deficits: indebtedness and unfair trade -- Leadership -- Moving the social machine -- Culture: the missing link? -- The crisis of national identity -- Embracing the micro-nations -- Land ownership: whose land is it, anyway? -- Environment and development -- Saving the Congo forests -- The African family.;In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country. Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai's remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come. From the Trade Paperback edition.