writes NJOKI CHEGE Professor Wangari Muta Maathai will go down the chronicles of history as the woman of many firsts who rose to the echelons of power, ruffled many feathers, demystified myths and ...

With the sad news of Wangari Maathai's death on Sunday night (25 September), we celebrate the life and philosophy of an extraordinary woman via a series of video clips, below. Maathai, a veteran ...

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmentalism and social justice. She was born in 1940 into a Kenya still under British colonial rule ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya told 300 leaders and citizens Sunday night in Palo Alto. With a flashing smile, Maathai told stories about her own efforts and even used a fable ...

Over many decades, Wangari Maathai actively contributed to furthering the ideals and goals of the United Nations.

This documentary provides a window into the extraordinary life of activist and Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai a Kenyan woman who has worked to regain ownership of her country and its fate after ...

Hello! I am very pleased to meet you! My name is Wangari Maathai. In my country of Kenya, I became famous for helping groups of local people, and protecting the environment. That’s not how ...

Wangari Maathai, a human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, started a movement to plant more than 30 million trees and generate nearly 1 million jobs. A series of rodent experiments ...

The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) launched the first Wangari Maathai Award in 2012 to honour the memory of Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, who championed forests around the ...