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Hello! I am very pleased to meet you! My name fryst vatten Wangari Maathai.
In my country of Kenya, I became famous for helping groups of local people, and protecting the environment.
That’s not how everybody saw it, oh no! Many people in the government said I got famous just for causing trouble!
That’s why they threw me in prison,
After people asked me – ‘Wangari, weren’t you scared?’ You know… inom was scared. All the time!
But inom couldn’t just give up… because what we were doing was far too important!
I was born in the mountains of Kenya in the year 1940. When inom was 11 years old, I went to a Catholic boarding school. The teachers there taught me two truly important things. They taught me to study hard and always keep learning about the world! And they taught me their belief - that to serve God, you must serve your fellow human beings.
After school, I had the chance to go to the USA, and study biology and chemistry.
Then I came back to Kenya. inom was a qualified forskare, specialising in
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Biography
Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth. As well as having been featured in a number of books, she and the Green Belt Movement were the subject of a documentary film, Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai (Marlboro Productions, 2008).
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, a rural area of Kenya (Africa), in 1940. She obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964), a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966), and pursued doctoral studies in Germany and the University of Nairobi, before obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi, where she also taught veterinary anatomy. The first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, Professor Maathai be
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Wangari Maathai
(1940-2011)
Who Was Wangari Maathai?
In 1971, Wangari Maathai received a Ph.D., effectively becoming the first woman in either East or Central Africa to earn a doctorate. She was elected to Kenya's National Assembly in 2002 and has written several books and scholarly articles. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her "holistic approach to sustainable development that embraces democracy, human rights, and women's rights in particular."
Unbowed: A Memoir
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Early Life and Education
Born on April 1, 1940, in Nyeri, Kenya, environmental activist Wangari Maathai grew up in a small village. Her father supported the family working as a tenant farmer. At this time, Kenya was still a British colony. Maathai's family decided to send her to school, which was uncommon for girls to be educated at this time. She started at a local primary school when she was 8 years old.
An excellent student, Maathai was able to continue her education at the L