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Pantheon
April 2009
On Sale: April 7, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0307377407
EAN: 9780307377401
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Non-Fiction Political
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of
the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique
perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she
calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves,
who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between
worlds. The troubles of Africa today are severe and wide-ranging.
Yet what we see of them in the media, more often than not,
are tableaux vivantes connoting poverty, dependence, and
desperation. Wangari Maathai presents a different vision,
informed by her three decades as an environmental activist
and campaigner for democracy. She illuminates the complex
and dynamic nature of the continent, and offers “hardheaded
hope” and “realistic options” for change and improvement.
With clarity of expression, Maathai analyzes the most
egregious “bottlenecks to development in Africa,” occurring
at the international, national, and individual levels–
cultural upheaval and enduring poverty among them–and
deftly describes what Africans can and need to do for
themselves, stressing all the while responsibility and
accountability. Impassioned and empathetic, The Challenge for Africa is a
book of immense importance.
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