Prof wangari maathai, nobel peace laureate and conservation heroine, is dead.maathai died aged 71, at around 10pm last night at the nairobi hospital after a long battle with cancer. Maathai will ...

With the sad news of Wangari Maathai's death on Sunday night (25 September), we celebrate the life and philosophy of an extraordinary woman via a series of video clips, below. Maathai, a veteran ...

The late Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She was an environmentalist and activist whose work with the Green Belt Movement emphasized ...

She died in 2011 at the age of 71 from ovarian ... The same year saw her partner with the University of Nairobi to set up the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI).

Wangari Maathai was born in Kenya in 1940 ... transforming the lives of the people and the environment around her until she died in 2011. Wangari had several issues she was passionate about ...

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 ...