World leaders have paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai who passed away while having treatment for ovarian cancer on Monday. Archbishop Desmond Tutu praised Maathai as a true ...

WANGARI MAATHAI: When I first started, which was in mid-1970s, I was responding to needs of rural women. Their issues were clean drinking water, firewood, wood to build their shelters and they ...

Wangari Maathai wears many hats, including author, professor, environmental and human rights activist and former member of the Kenyan Parliamentarian. Maathai was on-hand at a recent U.N. General ...

Wangari Maathai has always had an affinity for trees. As a child, she learned from her grandmother that a large fig tree near her family home in central Kenya was sacred and not to be disturbed. She ...

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 ...

(WOMENSENEWS)--My engagement with the late Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai began as a 15-minute film and ended with the 54-minute tribute that airs tonight on PBS. I hope viewers of our ...

An organisation led by Wanjira Maathai, the daughter of the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai is scaling heights in championing for environment conservation Wanjira is the Managing ...

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 ...

Alibhai Mullah Jeevanjee had the gardens constructed back in 1904 and, two years later, he donated them to the people of ...