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Ecologist Wangari Maathai won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her years of work with women to reverse African deforestation. Maathai went to college in the United States, earning degrees from Mt. St. Scholastica College (1964) and the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She returned to Kenya and earned her PhD. from the University of Nairobi (1971), then worked as a professor in their department of veterinary medicine. Maathai began the Green Belt Movement, a tree-planting program to reverse deforestation and provide firewood for Kenyan women. The program led to the planting of millions of trees and Maathai became a major political figure in Kenya. In 1997 she ran unsuccessfully for president and for a seat in Parliament, but in December of 2002 she was elected to Parliament, and in 2003 she was appointed by President Mwai Kibabi to the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, with the Nobel committee citing "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." She was the first African woman to win a Nobel.
Not long after winning the Nobel Prize, Maathai made headlines with the controversial suggestion that AIDS may have been a man-made biological agent. She later backtracked a bit, saying "I neither say nor believe that the virus was developed by white people or white powers in order to destroy the African people. Such views are wicked and destructive."
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Energy pioneers in action mode Deccan Herald, India - Last week, the UK-based Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy announced the award at a ceremony presided by Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai where TIDE won a ... |
My Week In Media: Wangari Maathai Independent, UK - Wangari Maathai is the founder of The Green Belt Movement, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. The British and Norwegian governments have granted her ... |
AFRICA: TREES VS. DESERTS Inter Press Service (subscription), Italy - ... to the south-west, writes Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, Goodwill Ambassador for the Congo Forest, and founder of the Green Belt Movement. ... |
Wangari Maathai, Environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 68 ... guardian.co.uk, UK - Wangari Maathai's memoir, Unbowed, is published by Arrow Books, £8.99. For more information about her charity, go to greenbeltmovement.org. |
Indian energy groups awarded top British prize Hindu, India - The prize was presented to NK Joshi, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of AGB, by Kenyan Nobel Prize laureate Wangari Maathai. AGB is expanding access to ... |
UN prefers Wako to Maathai ! Africa Intelligence, France - The list was widely expected to contain the name of the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, the Nobel laureate for peace in 2004. Instead, it contained that of the ... |
Planting trees gets to root of climate change Co-Operative News (subscription), UK - Nobel Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai has spent 30 years fighting for environmental and social justice in her native Kenya. As the founder of an international ... |
Central Africa: Kenyan Ecologist Heads Fund to Save Congo Basin AllAfrica.com, Washington - Renowned Kenyan environmentalist Prof Wangari Maathai and former Canadian premier Paul Martin will head a 200 million dollar fund to tackle deforestation in ... |
Congo Basin Forest Fund Launch in London - UK and Norway Commit US ... AllAfrica.com, Washington - The Fund, which has already garnered pledges of US$216 million, was launched in the presence of the Fund's Co-Chairs, Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, ... |
 AFP | Indian entrepreneur wins green energy award in London AFP - She was awarded the 40000-pound (51000-euro, 79000-dollar) prize by Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai at a ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society in ... |
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