I Am Malala is a book written by Malala Yousafzai, a women’s rights advocate who lived during the Talibans oppressive ruling. In the book, Malala describes witnessing the Taliban taking away the education and freedom of girls in her country. Refusing to accept this, Malala began fighting for women’s right to education, making her a target of the Taliban which lead to her being shot on her way home from school. Malala having Survived the attack continued to fight for educational rights throughout the world and went on to become the youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner.
“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.”
This qoute highlights Malala’s belief in education as a form of empowerment and how important it is.