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Nairobi, Kenya. Learn more about the life and legacy of Wangari Maathai from the Wangari Maathai Foundation. Wangari Muta Maathai was a renowned Kenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize.
Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate (in biology), and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan political and environmental activist and her country's assistant minister of environment, natural resources and wildlife. Updated: Oct 28, 2021 Photo: Wendy Stone...
26 de sept. de 2011 · September 26, 2011. • 10 min read. Wangari Muta Maathi, the Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, died Sunday at Nairobi Hospital at the age of 71...
Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth.
26 de sept. de 2011 · Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize, died on Sunday night of cancer. She was 71. A towering figure in Kenya, Maathai was renowned as a fearless social activist...
27 de sept. de 2011 · NAIROBI, Kenya — Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who began a movement to reforest her country by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees and who went on to become the...
