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    Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (/wænˈɡɑːri mɑːˈðaɪ/; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the...
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    Forests launched the Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Award to honour the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai. Winners include: 2012...
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  • Wangari is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to: Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan environmental and political activist Catherine Wangari Wainaina...
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  • 2004). "10 Questions: Wangari Maathai". Time. Retrieved 19 March 2007. from the Green Belt Movement website- Wangari Maathai's "The Challenge of AIDS...
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    In 2004, Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize, making her the first African woman to win. On September 25, 2011, Wangari Maathai died of ovarian...
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  • organisations addressing the problem of global deforestation. Professor Wangari Maathai established the organization in 1977 under the auspices of the National...
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    encourage people to "reduce, reuse and recycle". Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has used the term at the United Nations as a slogan to promote environmental...
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    County. One of the most notable Kenyans was Prof. Wangari Maathai, an activist and politician. Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel...
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  • by 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group. Maathai discusses her life from childhood until...
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    Green Belt Movement. Mathai was born and raised in Kenya. Her mother, Wangari Maathai, was a social, environmental and political activist and the first African...
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    (Vol. 50, No. 10) Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed: a memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 184–205. ISBN 0307263487. Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed:...
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    would have excised portions of the forest. Conservationists, led by Wangari Maathai, the leader of Green Belt Movement who later became a Nobel Peace Prize...
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    at American colleges. Notable beneficiaries of this airlift include Wangari Maathai. In 1960, Mboya was the first Kenyan to be featured on the front page...
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    counter what they regarded as colonial propaganda. Author and activist Wangari Maathai indicates that, to her, the most interesting story of the origin of...
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    fence with sharp spikes. Reopening date is not yet clear. In 1989, Wangari Maathai and many of her followers held a protest at the park, attempting to...
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    third woman to run for the highest office, after Charity Ngilu and Wangari Maathai in the 1997 elections. She emerged sixth in the race. She was picked...
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  • LPK fielded a presidential candidate, Wangari Maathai, who later became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Maathai was only a minor candidate. She did not...
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    awarded to a diverse group of people and organisations, including Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Leopold Kohr, Arna...
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  • and related programs. Kiama served as the founding director of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, at the UoN. He was also...
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    Scout movement. It is also the home town of the late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. The town is also the home of the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology...
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  • William Bryant Logan. The documentary starred environmentalists like Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paul Stamets and Bill Logan. The film...
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    of a series on Youth Voices in Landscapes. She is a recipient of a Wangari Maathai Scholarship award for her commitment to environmental conservation...
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    Replenishing the Earth, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai retells the parable as "a popular Buddhist story", in which the protagonist...
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    The Interim President of ECOSOCC was Kenyan Nobel Prize winner Prof. Wangari Maathai. In 2008, she was replaced as President by Cameroonian lawyer Akere...
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  • Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement. When an executive in the United States told Maathai their corporation was planning...
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  • Restoration of Democracy-People Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed: a memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 208. ISBN 0307263487...
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  • leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, journalist Armand Betscher, and Paul Hawken, the film documents the...
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    environmental and political activist Professor Wangari Maathai. It is a rural tree planting program led by women, which Maathai designed to help prevent desertification...
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    Kydland, Edward C. Prescott Literature – Elfriede Jelinek Peace – Wangarĩ Maathai Physics – David J. Gross, Hugh David Politzer, Frank Wilczek Physiology...
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    Athi on the eastern edge of the county. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai fought fiercely to save the indigenous Karura Forest in northern Nairobi...
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