Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), a Kenyan professor of biology at the University of Nairobi and an environmental activist, became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was lauded for her passionate campaigns to promote green spaces in Kenya and to preserve the country’s forests, as well as for fighting for human and women’s rights. She initiated the Green Belt movement in Kenya to preserve green spaces and plant new trees.
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- Maathai, Wangari. The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience. New York: Lantern Books, 2003.
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