Wangari Maathai did not seek to excuse or to forget the legacies of colonialism. But as the decades passed she grew increasingly frustrated with the enduring factionalism and opportunism among the ...

Prof Wangari Maathai, Africa's first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize On the 25th of September 2011, the world lost one of its biggest legends, a phenomenal woman known for standing for whatever ...

Nowhere in Wangari Maathai’s official biography as founder of the Green Belt Movement is there mention of a song written to honor her environmental work. But there is one. In late October of 2006, ...

Exactly a year after he stirred up controversy online by introducing his then 'bestie' Michelle Wangari to the world, Jimal Rohosafi has taken to social media to celebrate her again, this time with an ...

Last month, ovarian cancer claimed another dynamic woman, 71 year-old social activist, ecologist and Nobel Laureate, Wangari Maathai. Born in 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya, Maathai attended school during a ...

Wangari Maathai wears many hats, including author, professor, environmental and human rights activist and former member of the Kenyan Parliamentarian. Maathai was on-hand at a recent U.N. General ...

The decision to award a conservationist with the Nobel Peace Prize came as a surprise in 2004. Yet it underlined the role of Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement in building a peaceful and ...

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer Sunday at the age of 71. Maathai inspired a generation of women and founded Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which ...

Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, the producers of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, attended the Nobel laureate and environmental activist’s funeral in Kenya in October. Merton offered ...