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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Skin of the Earth. The documentary starred environmentalists like Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paul Stamets, and Bill Logan. The...

a barrier to young people's participation. She is a recipient of a Wangari Maathai Scholarship award for her commitment to environmental conservation...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

2020, goes to the legacy of Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement, The Wangari Maathai Foundation and The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

Clausnitzer and Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra in 2005. They named it in honor of Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to...