from a personal account, as well Is competition the best way to prove your competence  as implementing humor, sense, strength, and compassion in her memoir, Unbowed, to be a powerful voice to lead Africans forward to justice. She had to go well out of her comfort zone and take action with extraordinary courage to help transform Kenya’s government into a democracy, even at times without hardly any support. She also had to invest a lot of hard work and take many risks into the Green Belt Movement to build a strong enough platform to get her voice heard by the masses. The main form of social inequality covered in the book was that Africans were under misrule, corruption, violence, environmental mismanagement for years. Kenya’s history is st Is competition the best way to prove your competence ained by colonizing Europeans, who tarnished the Africans’ culture, morals, and values by renaming landmarks and places, teaching different philosophies, and forcing them to change their religious beliefs to Christianity. Africans were also forced to fight in World War I, where many of them would be lost without having their fates reported to family members back home. As Wangari described it, “My uncle went to war and never came back, and nobody ever bothered to come and tell my grandparents what had happened to their son” (Wangari 2007). The Green Belt Movement was the main ecological action covered in the book, which was a non-governmental organization. It took a holistic approach of environmental conservation by encouraging citizens to plant more trees instead of cutting them down because trees had major connections to water and malnutrition. Trees, according to Wangari, had roots that buried deep in the ground, where water would travel up the roots to gush up as a spring. They also hold soil together to reduce erosion and landslides. In addition, trees supplied firewood that would allow families to cook nutritious foods, and cutting down too many trees would lead to the increased demand for processed foods like white bread, maize flour, and white rice, which did not provide adequate vitamins, proteins, and minerals, thus leading to malnutrition for many people. The biggest strength in the book was the amount of detail Wangari describes in her accounts. She seems to enlarge the images, brighten the co Is competition the best way to prove your competence lors, amplify the feelings, and turn up the volume to her readers, cre Is competition the best way to prove your competence ating a very vivid visualization of what is going on in a particular scenario. Her arguments are very thoughtful, which helps back up her environmental activism intentions. She also takes into consideration how not everyone experienced some of the difficulties she and her society went through, which is very helpful for a reader to dive into her shoes without actually hav>