The Challenge for Africa - Softcover

Maathai, Wangari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099539039 ISBN 13: 9780099539032

Publisher: Arrow, 2010

Synopsis

In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa. Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy, The Challenge for Africa celebrates the enduring potential of the human spirit, and reminds us that change is always possible.

About this title

Review:

"I hope the world will support her vision of hope" (Nelson Mandela)

"From one of Africa's most positive and far-sighted thinkers comes a wonderful book combining an elegant critique of Africa's troubled past with a rallying cry for how Africans can use culture, nature and self-belief to reverse their continent's decline. The Challenge for Africa is a milestone in African writing that both educates and inspires" (Tim Butcher)

"Penetrating. . . a 21st century manifesto for Africans, drawing on her own experience as a worldly Kenyan, street-fighting activists, member of parliament and, from 2003-2006, government minister. Her analysis is thorough. She reaches into African history, culture, psychology, contemporary politics and fragile ecosystems" (Financial Times)

"Like a Nelson Mandela or a Mahatma Gandhi, Maathai stands way above most mortals" (The Guardian)

"Wangari Maathai is a prophet for our time" (Alexandra Fuller)

Book Description:

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Wangari Maathai offers a manifesto for C21st Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099539039
• ISBN 13: 9780099539032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336