Books By Wangari Maathai, National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (South Africa) - Author

Grace A Musila is an associate professor at the Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder, and co-editor of Rethinking Eastern African Intellectual Landscapes. She writes on East and Southern African literatures and popular culture, with a keen interest on how gender inflects both lived experience and knowledge production in Africa. In this regard, Wangari Maathai is a figure of great interest for Musila, owing to her rich life and thoughts on the intersections between gender, natural resources and state power in Africa, and how they determine the scope of freedom available to women, children and vulnerable communities.