ALSO BY WANGARI MAATHAI Unbowed: A Memoir The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience TO ALL THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA Contents Introduction: On the Wrong Bus One The Farmer of Yaoundé Two A Legacy of Woes Three Pillars of Good Governance: The Three- Legged Stool Four Aid and the Dependency Syndrome Five Deficits: Indebtedness and Unfair Trade Six Leadership Seven Moving the Social Machine Eight Culture: The Missing Link? Nine The Crisis of National Identity Ten Embracing the Micro- nations Eleven Land Ownership: Whose Land Is It, Anyway? Twelve Environment and Development Thirteen Saving the Congo Forests Fourteen The African Family Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography ON THE WRONG BUS FOR THIRTY YEARS, I have worked in the trenches with others to find ways to break the wall that separates the peoples of Africa from justice, wealth, peace, and respect. We have searched for a route out of poverty, ignorance, ill health and early death, violations of basic rights, corruption, environmental degradation, and many other problems associated with Africa. I have done this work through the Green Belt Movement,