Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
New York, NY Anchor Books 2010
Description
Taking a view far from the dependent Africa typically portrayed by Western media, Maathai lays bare the complex and multi-layered culture of the continent, offering optimistic yet feasible ways to improve the quality of life that literally start from the ground up. Maathai analyzes the major impediments to development at three key levels--international, national, and individual. By stressing personal responsibility, Maathai focuses on what Africans can do for themselves to empower individual change at the community level.
Call number
Political Science / Maathai
Language
ISBN
9780307390288
Awards
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2010)
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