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...Nairobi in the late 1970s. Composed largely of women, her Green Belt Movement quickly spread throughout Kenya and beyond. Then she turned to politics, including an unsuccessful run for President and protests against reckless development. When President Daniel arap Moi wanted to erect a 62-story office tower in Uhuru (Freedom) Park, a vital public space, her band of mothers and grandmothers forced the dictator to back down...
...Goldman Environmental Prize last year, Maathai interweaves her new political activities with her old fight to preserve Kenya's land. Her opposition to a plan by the ruling party and the late Robert Maxwell to build a 62-story office building on the site of Nairobi's Uhuru Park frightened away other foreign investors and scuttled the project. She also led the outcry against destruction of 20 hectares (50 acres) of forest on Nairobi's outskirts so that roses could be grown for export. Maathai countered official claims that the site contained no indigenous trees with a photograph of herself...
...Uhuru!, the Swahili clarion call for freedom from the European colonial powers, has brought independence but little liberty for millions of black Africans. The rallying cry "One man, one vote" has been transformed into reality, but it has suffered an ironic distortion. Many Africans now have one vote, but often it can be cast for only one man. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda was the sole candidate in his nation's presidential elections last October, when he was elected to a fifth four-year term. In Kenya, long a showplace of African democracy, President Daniel Arap Moi faced...
...quarter-century after Uhuru!, African leaders must recognize that anticolonial rhetoric may win votes, ,but it will not solve problems. However they may feel about the colonial era, it cannot be expunged from history. The positive legacies of the past must be emphasized, while new ideas are tested to deal with the problems of the present and future. A high priority will be to chip away at divisive tribal enmities. Finally, Africans must accept the essential requirement of political stability: the orderly, peaceful transfer of power in the best interest of the governed. Without that resolve, nationhood in Africa will...
...laity, while bishops and priests speak out in principle for human and religious rights and against corruption and violence. "The against corruption and violence. "The Christian faith does not provide you with readymade solutions to the complex problems affecting contemporary society," he told the crowd in Nairobi's Uhuru Park. "But it does give you deep insights into the nature of man and his needs, calling you to speak the truth in love, to take up your responsibilities as good citizens and to work with your neighbors to build a society where true human values are nourished and deepened...