WANGARI MAATHAI

2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace

• Born: April 1, 1940
• Place of birth: Nyeri, Kenya, Africa
• Nationality: Kenyan
• Education:
  • Mount St. Scholastica College, Kansas, B.S. Biological Sciences, 1964
  • University of Pittsburgh, M.S. Biological Sciences, 1966
  • University of Nairobi, PhD Anatomy, 1971
• Biographical highlights:
  • 1971 First East and Central African Woman to earn a PhD
  • 1973-80 Director, Kenya Red Cross
  • 1976 First Female Chair of Dept of Veterinary Anatomy at University of Nairobi
  • 1977 First Female Associate Professor of Dept of Veterinary Anatomy at University of Nairobi
  • 1977 Founded The Green Belt Movement
  • 1981-7 Chairman of the National Council of Women of Kenya
  • 1997 Ran for Presidency of Kenya
  • 1998 Launched Kenya Jubilee 2000 coalition
  • 2002 Elected to Parliament with 98% of the vote, Tetu Constituency
  • 2003 Appointed Assistant Minister of Environment, Natural Resources & Wildlife
  • 2004 First Female African to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize

• The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience by Wangari Maathai
• Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe, Anna Lappe
• Speak Truth to Power : Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World by KERRY KENNEDY CUOMO, EDDIE ADAMS
• Women Pioneers for the Environment by Mary Joy Breton
• Eco-Heroes: Twelve Tales of Environmental Victory by Aubrey Wallace, David Gancher
• Books on Wangari Maathai

• Discuss your reaction
• The Green Belt Movement
• Biography at The Green Belt Movement
• Official award announcement and brief background
• Female Nobel Prize Laureates

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