Source: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org/wangari-maathai/books

The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

The Green Belt Movement is a first-hand account from Wangari Maathai about how the organisation grew from her idea to provide jobs to women to a network of hundreds of thousands of men and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya. In the book, she discussed the challenges of managing the movement and grassroot organisation and campaign and mobilisation of communal effort to protect their environment.

Unbowed: A Memoir

Unbowed is the memoir of Wangari Maathai, narating her life story from being a girl from Central Highlands of Kenya became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa and head a university department in Kenya. It describes Wangari Maathai’s journey to protect the environment through planting trees, empower the community and fight for peace and democracy for the country.

The Challenge for Africa

In the book, she provided hope and also realistic options to change and improve the environment and conditions in Africa. She describes what Africans can and need to do for themselves, being responsible and accountable for their own actions.

Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World

In the book, Professor Maathai argues that the key to self-empowerment and conservation lies in traditional spiritual values: love for the environment, self-betterment, gratitude and respect, and a commitment to service.

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