The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Wangari Maathai and Social Justice Advocacy
Alberto González, Eddah M. Mutua, and Anke Wolbert

Part I: Africa and the Rhetoric of the Green Belt Movement

Chapter One: Bantu Sociolinguistics in Wangari Maathai's Peacebuilding Rhetoric
Kundai V. Chirindo
Chapter Two: Envisioning Peace and Reconciliation for Kenya: Wangari Maathai's 2008 Peace Tent Opening Ceremony Address
Anke Wolbert
Chapter Three: The Rhetorical Potency of Storytelling: The Narrative Role of the Hummingbird in the Green Belt Movement
Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey
Chapter Four: Heroic Transverser: A Rhetorical Analysis of Representations of Wangari Maathai
Wanjiru G. Mbure
Chapter Five: Wangari Maathai's Rhetorical Vision: Empowerment through Education
Ahmet Atay
Chapter Six: The Green Belt Movement and Rhetoric of African Development Communication
Stella-Monica Mpande and Cleophas Tauri Muneri


Part II: Planting the Future: Sustaining Agency in and beyond the Green Belt Movement

Chapter Seven: The Rhetorical Significance of Maathai's Environmental Advocacy to Critical Intercultural Communication and Black Feminisms
Rachel Alicia Griffin and Gloria Nziba Pindi
Chapter Eight: Wangari Maathai and Mottainai: Gifting "Cultural Appropriation" with Cultural Empowerment
Etsuko Kinefuchi
Chapter Nine: Daughter of the Soil: Wangari Maathai's Rhetorical Vision of Environmental Justice and Reform
Reynaldo Anderson and D.L. Stephenson
Chapter Ten: Growing the Next Generation: The Sustainability of Wangari Maathai's Rhetoric of Environmentalism
Ellen W. Gorsevski
Chapter Eleven: Planting the Future: The Spiritual Legacy of Wangari Maathai
Eddah M. Mutua and Susan M. Kilonzo

References
Index
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