Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades to furthering the ideals and objectives of the United Nations. A globally recognized champion for human rights and women’s empowerment, ...
In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, a grass-roots organisation ...
In her native Kenya, Wangari Maathai has been arrested, beaten unconscious and called subversive. Last week, her fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner — and ...
The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was only another triumph in the unlikely rise to prominence of Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who became the first African woman and first environmental activist to win that most ...
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/4212195/4212196" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> This ...
Text, pictures, subject and pacing all contribute to the success of Nivola’s (Elisabeth) picture book biography of Wangari Maathai, the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In the first pages, ...
Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, the producers of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, attended the Nobel laureate and environmental activist’s funeral in Kenya in October. Merton offered ...
Wangari Maathai was the first woman in Central and East Africa to earn a Ph.D., but she learned the ways of the world by planting trees. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement to teach peasant ...
Professor Wangari Maathai contributed over many decades to furthering the ideals and objectives of the United Nations. A globally recognized champion for human rights and women’s empowerment, ...
2009-05-26T20:58:29-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...
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