Chapter Ten in which Hippo decides to become a hummingbird
Inspiration arrived in the form of an article about fellow African Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), known fondly as “Mama Trees.” In the 1970’s, Maathai saw that her native Kenya was in trouble. The sparkling streams she had known as a girl had dried up. The tadpoles were gone. “My own child could not play with...