1940-2011 Wangari Muta Maathai, Environmental Activist
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06-12-2020 06:29 PM
Wangari Muta Maathai, Environmental Activist
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Sixty-four-year-old Wangari Maathai, the most prominent environmental activist in Africa, was the 2004 recipient of the Alfred Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari Muta was born on April 1, 1940, in1940, in Ihithe, Nyeri Province, Kenya during British colonial rule. In1971 Wangari Maathai first woman to receive a PhD in Eastern Africa. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work when she founded the Mazingira Green Party of Kenya and later that year was appointed Assistant Minister for Environmental and Natural Resources by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki.
