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Green Belt Movement

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organisations addressing the problem of global deforestation. Professor Wangari Maathai established the organization in 1977 under the auspices of the National...

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Mottainai

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encourage people to "reduce, reuse and recycle". Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has used the term at the United Nations as a slogan to promote environmental...

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United Nations Forum on Forests

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Forests launched the Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Award to honour the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai. Winners include: 2012...

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Women and the environment

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In 2004, Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize, making her the first African woman to win. On September 25, 2011, Wangari Maathai died of ovarian...

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Wangari

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Wangari is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to: Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan environmental and political activist Catherine Wangari Wainaina...

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Wanjira Mathai

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Green Belt Movement. Mathai was born and raised in Kenya. Her mother, Wangari Maathai, was a social, environmental and political activist and the first African...

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Daniel arap Moi

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(Vol. 50, No. 10) Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed: a memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 184–205. ISBN 0307263487. Wangari Maathai (2006). Unbowed:...

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Mau Mau rebellion

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counter what they regarded as colonial propaganda. Author and activist Wangari Maathai indicates that, to her, the most interesting story of the origin of...

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Women in Kenya

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County. One of the most notable Kenyans was Prof. Wangari Maathai, an activist and politician. Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel...

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Karura Forest

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would have excised portions of the forest. Conservationists, led by Wangari Maathai, the leader of Green Belt Movement who later became a Nobel Peace Prize...

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Uhuru Park

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fence with sharp spikes. Reopening date is not yet clear. In 1989, Wangari Maathai and many of her followers held a protest at the park, attempting to...

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Parable of the drowning man

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Replenishing the Earth, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai retells the parable as "a popular Buddhist story", in which the protagonist...

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Kikuyu people

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ultimatum to renounce the cultural practice or to leave the church's fold. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate, first African woman and first environmentalist to...

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Trillion Tree Campaign

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement. When an executive in the United States told Maathai their corporation was planning...

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Ecofeminism

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environmental and political activist Professor Wangari Maathai. It is a rural tree planting program led by women, which Maathai designed to help prevent desertification...

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Tom Mboya

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at American colleges. Notable beneficiaries of this airlift include Wangari Maathai. In 1960, Mboya was the first Kenyan to be featured on the front page...

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Mount Kenya

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very precise notation of the correct African pronunciation /ˈkɛnjə/. Wangari Maathai tells the following story about the naming: Krapf and Johannes Rebmann...

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Nairobi

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Athi on the eastern edge of the county. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai fought fiercely to save the indigenous Karura Forest in northern Nairobi...

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Mazingira Green Party of Kenya

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LPK fielded a presidential candidate, Wangari Maathai, who later became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Maathai was only a minor candidate. She did not...

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African feminism

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prominent ecofeminist movement since 1977, when it was founded by activist Wangari Maathai. This movement centers planting trees and protecting the environment...

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Nyeri

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Scout movement. It is also the home town of the late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai. The town is also the home of the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology...

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Martha Karua

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third woman to run for the highest office, after Charity Ngilu and Wangari Maathai in the 1997 elections. She emerged sixth in the race. She was picked...

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Elizabeth Wathuti

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of a series on Youth Voices in Landscapes. She is a recipient of a Wangari Maathai Scholarship award for her commitment to environmental conservation...

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Tetu Constituency

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Dedan Kimathi Waciuri (31 October 1920 – 18 February 1957) and Dr. Wangari Maathai (1940-2011), who served for the session from 2002 to 2007. During her...

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Notogomphus maathaiae

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Clausnitzer and Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra in 2005. They named it in honor of Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to...

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