When Wangari Maathai celebrated something important — such as becoming the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize — she would plant a tree. "That's the way I do things," she told ...

A Nobel laureate and environmentalist, Wangari Maathai loved literature that reflected environmental and courage themes ...

Wangari Maathai: A life in pictures. The statement praised Maathai for a speech she delivered in 2005 at the Third Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, while she was Deputy Minister of Environment in Kenya.

Born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, Wangari Maathai — born Wangari Muta — loved playing by the stream near her home, where she would go daily to fetch water. The sight of frog eggs floating in the ...

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

Wangari Maathai, 71, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who sparked an international movement for women’s rights and environmental preservation by teaching poor Kenyan women to plant trees, died Sept ...

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71.

Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, sits down with Jeffrey Brown about her ecology work and social activism. Thirty years ago, Wangari ...

Wangari Maathai, who died on September 25 aged 71, won the Nobel Peace Prize for encouraging women in rural Kenya to plant trees; from that simple idea sprouted a powerful movement that challenged ...

Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died on September 25 th in Nairobi.

Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who went on to become the first African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, died at 71.