“Anybody can
dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it,
you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can
take care of itself. There are so many enemies of trees.” – Wangari Maathai
The inaugural lecture in honor of the late Kenyan Nobel
peace Laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, will be given by Chinese-British
writer Jung Chang at the Louis Leakey Auditorium on Saturday, September 15.
Chang is the author of Wild
Swans: Three Daughters of China (Described
by the Asian Wall Street Journal as the most read book about China), and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon
Halliday).
She has won the UK Writer’s Guild Best Non-Fiction in 1992
and Book of the Year UK in 1993. Her books have been translated into over 40
languages and sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.
The lecture runs from 3 to 4pm.
The late environmental and political activist who become the
first woman in Central and Eastern Africa to hold a Ph.D. besides being the
first African Woman to the Nobel Peace Prize, died last September of cancer.
I will be a
hummingbird
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