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 Sunday night (25 ... In 2004, Maathai became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "unique forms of action [that] have ...

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 ...

No Kenyan attests to this better than former Tetu MP Prof Wangari Maathai. Her winning of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize makes her one of the greatest women achievers in Africa. She joined the elite ...

Wangari Maathai has a long history of pushing boundaries ... In 2004, she was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." ...

Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and ...

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 ...

4 African Women Trailblazers in Championing Peace and Security The late Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She was an environmentalist and ...

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 ...