October 2004 was an exciting time to be a tree-hugger in Wangari Maathai‘s home country ... Here's How Read Unbowed, Maathai’s autobiography, and you’ll quickly understand that her focus ...

The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Kenyan Wangari Maathai who ... In her 2006 autobiography "Unbowed: One Woman's Story," Maathai recounts how climate patterns had ceased ...

But Maathai was unmoved and unbowed. On 28 February 1992 ... preferring to be known by her birth name Wangari Muta. Later, in defiance of her ex-husband's insistence that that she drop his ...

Born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940, Wangari Maathai — born Wangari ... joy of freedom as they one day walk there,” Maathai wrote in her book “Unbowed.” Throughout February, we’ll spotlight ...

Yet Maathai's 2006 memoir, "Unbowed," shows that such a successful ... democracy and good management of the environment." Wangari Maathai discusses her life and work at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday ...

In the book she analyzes roadblocks… Wangari Maathai talked about her book Unbowed: A Memoir, published by Anchor. She was interviewed on stage about her life and… Wangari Muta Maathai ...

Many have described her as a patriot and a hero, and Prof Wangari Maathai deserves it all, and then some more. She literally fought for the conservation of the environment with her blood, sweat ...

The world lost a remarkable person when Wangari Maathai, 71, died of ovarian cancer ... In this interview, she talks to Jerome about her autobiography Unbowed, which recounts her string of ...

Wangari Muta Maathai is founder of the Green Belt Movement ... She is also author of Unbowed: A Memoir. Maathai earned her undergraduate degree in biological sciences from Mount St. Scholastica ...

Unbowed, Wangari in 1997 ran for president but lost ... she established the Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI). The WMI will bring together academic research — in ...

Unbowed (2006). Last year she founded the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies. She is survived by her son and two daughters, one of whom, Wanjira, works for GBM.