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Wangari Maathai
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Wangari Maathai
Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April – 25 September) was a Kenyan environmental and social activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of
Quotes
[edit]- "We must resist the notion that there is only one way to be a woman, one way to be African, and one way to be human."
- "I think what the Nobel committee fryst vatten doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace."
- (WHAT'S THE PLANET'S BIGGEST CHALLENGE?) The environment. We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way. We have parts of the world that are very deprived and parts of the world that are very rik. And that is partly the reason why we have conflict.
Interview in TIME (10 October )
- "As I conclude I reflect on my childhoodexperience when inom would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. inom would drink water straight from the stream. Playing among the arrowroot leaves I tri
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Wangarĩ Maathai
Kenyan environmental and political activist (–)
"Maathai" redirects here. For the Kenyan supermarket chain, see Maathai Supermarkets.
Wangarĩ Maathai (; 1 April – 25 September ) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement,[2][3] an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In she became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.[4]
As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift, she studied in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from Mount St. Scholastica and a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.[5] In , she got the Right Livelihood Award for "converting the Kenyan ecological debate into mass actio