Unbowed By Wangari Maathai: Analysis

When a country goes completely from green to drought caused by industrializing, it loses its rescores due to deforestation, where communities depend on the resources for living, which then leads to poverty and violence. Wangari Maathai, in her memoir, “Unbowed” was telling the effects of deforestation and its horrible chain reaction in Kenya through her teary eyes. She was born in Kenya in 1940, where the colonization and industrialization of Britain caused violence and corruption, which impacted her culture. Wangari Maathai was well-aware of the surroundings and her country issues due to the exposure of multiple different cultures that she interacted with, in which got her a point of view of her country issues. Furthermore, she became ambitious …show more content…
She started doing simple things like planting trees in her early life, Maathai took planting trees to the next level; hence, she established the Green Belt Movement in 1977. She encountered the dark side of political corruption and their environmental negligence. Her goal was simple, which is bringing back the dead land to a beautiful green land again. She obtained doctorate degree in the United States for five years. After pursuing her degree, she became more interested in political activism but Kenya’s parliament did not want to trust Maathai because of her high level of education, especially as a woman. They did not want her to influent others by planting trees and educating them. Maathai’s native tribe, the Kikuyus, has rituals when babies are born, the mother of the baby infused her saliva into three fruits along with a lamp raised at home, the mother feeds it to the baby. This declares that the child is not only a product of his parents, but also his land (4). Maathai’s mother showed her how it is important to coexist with nature. At a young age, she was wandering by herself through the nature, this strengthened the relationship between nature and