A Movement Leader Speaks

Living on Earth

Host Steve Curwood talks with Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai about the legacy of colonialism in Africa and her continued efforts to restore and preserve the world’s forests. Maathai recently released a memoir called “Unbowed.”

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