In <i>Unbowed,</i> Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people&#8217;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&#8217;s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country<b>.</b> Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai&#8217;s remarkable story of courage, faith, and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come.