Unbowed : a memoir
- Kenya First Anchor 2006
- 326 p.
In Unbowed, Noble Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the international stage. When she founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a renowned poor people's environment effort that soon inspired the world. Having endured jailing's, beatings, and personal losses, Maathai continued to plant trees and change lives, and worked successfully to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country