Wangarĩ Muta Maathai (/wænˈɡɑːri mɑːˈðaɪ/; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the...

organisations addressing the problem of global deforestation. Professor Wangari Maathai established the organization in 1977 under the auspices of the National...

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...

Forests launched the Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Award to honour the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai. Winners include: 2012...

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...

Wangari is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to: Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan environmental and political activist Catherine Wangari Wainaina...

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...

counter what they regarded as colonial propaganda. Author and activist Wangari Maathai indicates that, to her, the most interesting story of the origin of...

2004). "10 Questions: Wangari Maathai". Time. Retrieved 19 March 2007. from the Green Belt Movement website- Wangari Maathai's "The Challenge of AIDS...

(Vol. 50, No. 10) Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed: a memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 184–205. ISBN 0307263487. Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed:...

by 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group. Maathai discusses her life from childhood until...

Replenishing the Earth, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai retells the parable as "a popular Buddhist story", in which the protagonist...

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...

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...

women's rights to land and forests. She is the winner of the 2022 Wangari Maathai Award. Cécile Ndjebet was born in a rural locality near Edea in the...

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...

William Bryant Logan. The documentary starred environmentalists like Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paul Stamets and Bill Logan. The film...

Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (31 October 1920 – 18 February 1957) and Dr. Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), who served for the session from 2002 to 2007. During her...

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...

ultimatum to renounce the cultural practice or to leave the church's fold. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate, first African woman and first environmentalist to...

environmental and political activist Professor Wangari Maathai. It is a rural tree planting program led by women, which Maathai designed to help prevent desertification...

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...

prominent ecofeminist movement since 1977, when it was founded by activist Wangari Maathai. This movement centers planting trees and protecting the environment...

very precise notation of the correct African pronunciation /ˈkɛnjə/. Wangari Maathai tells the following story about the naming: Krapf and Johannes Rebmann...

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...

LPK fielded a presidential candidate, Wangari Maathai, who later became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Maathai was only a minor candidate. She did not...

of a series on Youth Voices in Landscapes. She is a recipient of a Wangari Maathai Scholarship award for her commitment to environmental conservation...

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...

non-native species such as eucalyptus or cypress has been a problem. Wangari Maathai called for "not sacrificing native forests at the expense of exotic...

imaging, Philip Hench '20 for discovery of the hormone cortisone, and Wangari Maathai '66 for founding the Green Belt Movement. Other alumni have also been...