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  2. Unbowed: A Memoir - Wikipedia

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    Maathai discusses her life from childhood until she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She discusses her childhood, education in the United States and her return to Kenya, moving on to her life as an environmentalist and political activist, culminating with the victory of the opposition in the 2002, elections against the ruling KANU party and her election to parliament, followed ...

  3. Wangarĩ Maathai - Wikipedia

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    Wangarĩ Maathai (/ w æ n ˈ ɡ ɑː r i m ɑː ˈ ð aɪ /; 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement, [2] [3] an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.

  4. File:Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement.pdf

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    English: Title: Wangari Maathai: and the green belt movement. Series: UNESCO series on women in African history Other lang. series issues: Série UNESCO femmes dans l'histoire de l'Afrique Imprint: Paris, UNESCO, 2014 Country: France Publ Year: 2014 Collation: 60 p., illus. Original Language: English Other Lang. versions: French ISBN ISSN: 978 ...

  5. List of environmental books - Wikipedia

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    This page is a list of environmental books. In this context they are notable books that feature the environment as a major theme, ... Wangari Maathai: 2007

  6. Green Belt Movement - Wikipedia

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    Since Wangari Maathai started the movement in 1977, more than 51 million trees have been planted, and more than 30,000 women have been trained in forestry, food processing, bee-keeping, and other trades that help them earn income while preserving their lands and resources. Communities in Kenya (both men and women) have been motivated and ...

  7. 2004 Nobel Prizes - Wikipedia

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    Maathai denied having stated them, though The Standard stood by its reporting, and Maathai later hinted in a Time interview that she believed HIV had a non-natural origin, saying that someone knows where it came from and that it "did not come from monkeys".

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  9. Nobelity - Wikipedia

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    The first environmentalist to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Prof. Wangari Muta Maathai is the founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement (GBM), a grassroots non-governmental organization (NGO) which has created opportunity and change in the life of rural African women and dramatically improved the Kenyan environment through the planting of 30 ...