Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya told 300 leaders and citizens Sunday night in Palo Alto. With a flashing smile, Maathai told stories about her own efforts and even used a fable ...

In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

With the sad news of Wangari Maathai's death on ... with scarce natural resources. In 2004, Maathai became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "unique forms of action ...

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Award in 2012 to honour the memory of Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, who championed forests around the ...

(CNN)-- The same problems that brought the global banking system to its knees are shackling Africa to a future of corruption and hunger, Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai told CNN. "In any ...

Her courage and dedication was recognised in 2004, when she won a Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya in 1940. Having studied biology and chemistry as a scholarship student in the ...

Wangari Maathai's daughter Wanjra ... women "who have wielded influence over the world." Maathai was also the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004.

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

In 2004, Kenyan Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was an environmentalist and human rights activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s.

Wangari Maathai, a human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, started a movement to plant more than 30 million trees and generate nearly 1 million jobs. A series of rodent experiments ...

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