The late Nobel Peace laureate Prof Wangari Maathai. In her memoir, Unbowed: One Woman’s Story, Wangari states that encroachment on Uhuru Park had been an eyesore since Independence. In 1989, Prof ...

The Foundation continues to inspire young people to be leaders of courage and character and to embody the works of Prof Wangari Maathai. "My mother was always ahead of the world, as she understood ...

Nairobi - The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Kenyan Wangari Maathai who died on Sunday ... In her 2006 autobiography "Unbowed: One Woman's Story", Maathai recounts how climate ...

In her biography, Unbowed, Maathai remembers ... replant six million hectares of degraded forest. Such was the Wangari Maathai effect. And it all started with a woman planting a tree and ...

On October 8, 2004, Wangari Maathai was travelling to Tetu constituency ... I wonder whether anybody ever is," she recounted in her book, Unbowed. "The news hit me like a thunderbolt.

Another example is the memoir “Unbowed” by the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement Wangari Maathai, who worked to save Kenya’s forests by planting trees. This text ...

Yet it underlined the role of Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement in building a peaceful and self-sustained society. Wangari Muta Maathai was born in 1940 in Tetu village in the central ...

Wangari Muta Maathai once said: “In the course of history ... when she led a campaign against fraudulent allocation of Karura Forest. In her autobiography Unbowed: One Woman’s Story, Maathai detailed ...