Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmentalism and social justice. Maathai was born in 1940 into a Kenya still under British colonial ...

Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, sits down with Jeffrey Brown about her ecology work and social activism. Thirty years ago, Wangari Maathai ...

The decision to award a conservationist with the Nobel Peace Prize came as a surprise in 2004. Yet it underlined the role of Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement in building a peaceful and ...

Érase una vez una niña que vivía rodeada de árboles. Un día hubo una masiva deforestación y, temiendo que el bosque fuera a desaparecer, decidió ... plantar nueve árboles e iniciar una acción ...

In 1977, Wangari Maathai established the Green Belt Movement, which addressed the pressing issue of environmental degradation in Kenya, while simultaneously advocating for women's rights. Through this ...

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 after “a prolonged and bravely borne struggle ...

Kenyan environmentalist and zoology professor Wangari Maathai bcame the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. We hear Wangari Maathai speaking earlier about the violence she ...

Hello! I am very pleased to meet you! My name is Wangari Maathai. In my country of Kenya, I became famous for helping groups of local people, and protecting the environment. That’s not how everybody ...

Born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, Wangari Maathai — born Wangari Muta — loved playing by the stream near her home, where she would go daily to fetch water. The sight of frog eggs floating in the stream ...