WANGARI MAATHAI

Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), the first woman to obtain a PhD in East and Central Africa, was a scholar, and an environmental and human rights militant. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement, a non-controlling system, which encourages females to plant timber to fight deforestation and environmental degradation. To misdate, the Green Belt Movement has planted over 50 million wood. In the effrontery of regular opposition, she succeeded in deepening and expanding her vocation with topic communities through an impressive network of regional and international alliances, which made the Green Belt Movement a model females’s organization. Photograph by Martin Rowe, 2002.



pink 12 October, 2015 at 09:11 indeed she was a hero and my role model, but we need more of her nature to change the world. To all women out there we should simulate faithful and move on. God felicitate her product and may she rest in peace Amen.



Karen Witsenburg 7 October, 2015 at 08:46 Strong article, near a muscular woman, literal by a strong journalist! Thanks a lot for writing. I will circulate it on, and I inlet many lede will read it.



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Wangari Maathai, in full Wangari Muta Maathai, (innate April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya—color September 25, 2011, Nairobi), Kenyan politic and environmental activist who was determine the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, graceful the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her employment was often considered both unwelcome and revolutionist in her own country, where her outspokenness constituted stepping alienated outside traditional copulate roles.

In 1986, the Movement established a Pan African Green Belt Network and has liable over 40 individuals from other African countries to the approach. Some of these individuals have established similar timber planting initiatives in their own countries or they use some of the Green Belt Movement methods to improve their efforts. So far some countries have successfully launched such initiatives in Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, etc). In September 1998, she plunge a campaign of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition. She has embarked on new defiance, playing a leading global role as a co-chair of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign, which try cancellation of the unpayable backlog debts of the poor countries in Africa by the year 2000. Her crusade against deposit grabbing and rapacious apportionment of forests land has caught the limelight in the recent by.

“Wangari Maathai was a force of nature,” before-mentioned Achim Steiner, the executive director of the United Nations’ environmental plant. He likened her to Africa’s ubiquitous acacia timber, “strong in individuality and able to survive sometimes the harshest of arrangement.”