Unbowed

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman's extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.  

“[Maathai’s] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance—and of the power of principled, passionate people to change their countries and inspire the world.”  —The Washington Post

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary life. 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.

Winner of Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2007

“"Wangari Maathai's memoir is direct, honest, and beautifully written-a gripping account of modern Africa's trials and triumphs, a universal story of courage, persistence, and success against great odds in a noble cause." -President Bill Clinton"Wangari Maathai is the rare leader who knows how to create independence, not dependence. On the page as in person, her example makes each of us a little stronger, wiser and braver than we ever thought we could be." -Gloria Steinem"Compelling. . . . A striking reminder that the peace award, more than any other Nobel honor, recognizes success achieved through tremendous adversity." - The Seattle Times "Inspirational. . . . Ms. Maathai will not be beaten down." - The Economist "[Maathai's] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance-and of the power of principled, passionate people to change their countries and inspire the world." - The Washington Post”

“Wangari Maathai’s memoir is direct, honest, and beautifully written—a gripping account of modern Africa’s trials and triumphs, a universal story of courage, persistence, and success against great odds in a noble cause.”  —President Bill Clinton

"Wangari Maathai is the rare leader who knows how to create independence, not dependence. On the page as in person, her example makes each of us a little stronger, wiser and braver than we ever thought we could be.”  —Gloria Steinem

“Compelling.... A striking reminder that the peace award, more than any other Nobel honor, recognizes success achieved through tremendous adversity.”  —The Seattle Times

“Inspirational.... Ms. Maathai will not be beaten down.” —The Economist

“[Maathai’s] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance—and of the power of principled, passionate people to change their countries and inspire the world.”  —The Washington Post

WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI was born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940. She is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, which, through networks of rural women, has planted over 30 million trees across Kenya since 1977. In 2002, she was elected to Kenya's Parliament in the first free elections in a generation, and in 2003, she was appointed Deputy Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2004, she has three grown children and lives and works in Nairobi.

This monograph explores the distinctive elements of the Educational Doctorate (EdD): it affords professional educationalists the chance to become knowledge producers, knowledge transformers and agents of change within their educational communities, taking responsibility for establishing curriculum, pedagogy and the moral purpose of these within educational communities. Alison Taysum theorizes upon these issues using Bourdieu's theory of practice and the thinking tools of culture, habitus, and misrecognition. She explores how the EdD makes such intellectual work possible by introducing educational professionals to the different kinds of knowledge that exist in "the knowledge economy". She argues that some kinds of knowledge are privileged above others which effectively excludes people who do not have what Bourdieu calls the required "capital" to engage/critique current knowledge discourses. Taysum shows that the EdD is distinctive, affording people the chance to have a good look at different kinds of knowledge, and the HEI becomes a site for the democratization of knowledge.>

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