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. She focused ...

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 ...

Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades ... and security — for which she was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Kenya, the daughter of farmers in the highlands of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kenyan environmentalist and activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ...

4 African Women Trailblazers in Championing Peace and Security The late Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to ...

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. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...

Prof wangari maathai, nobel peace laureate and conservation ... Known for her love for trees, maathai was in 2004 awarded the nobel peace prize for her conservation efforts, she was the first ...

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 ...