Wangari Maathai News, Pictures & Buzz

Physics - The First Planetarium Under Kenyan Skies  Physics

Say My Name, Signature African Art review: celebrates black achievement while commemorating suffering  Telegraph.co.uk

Code learning as an everyday element: Novartis India’s Learning Head  People Matters

'Voices and Conversations' exhibition at Orlando Museum of Art is a must-see gathering of contemporary artists  Orlando Weekly

Inside Signature African Art and Ava DuVernay's Breathtaking New Exhibition  AnOther Magazine

Mashujaa Day Special: Little Known Kenyan Heroes [VIDEO]  Kenyans.co.ke

Renee Ngamau leads fight to save Nairobi’s playgrounds and public...  Citizen TV

Say My Name | Signature African Art  Artsy

Nobel Prize, Ghana!  Graphic Online

Radio picks of the week | Culture  The Times

Anny Scoones: Every day should be Orange Shirt Day  Times Colonist

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1901  New Straits Times

Community comes together to plant trees  Rosebank Killarney Gazette

Newark Museum Acquires Major Work by Contemporary Black Artist Bisa Butler  Baristanet

Harambee: The law of generosity that rules Kenya  BBC News

Dame Jenni Murray to present her final episode of Woman’s Hour  Belfast Telegraph

South Africa: Minister Barbara Creecy - Resilience, Gender and Global Climate Action Round Table  AllAfrica.com

Abraham Mwaura and Melanie West: Quest4Earth - The RoundTable is Evanston's newspaper  Evanston RoundTable

SUSTAINABLE MARBLEHEAD: How to plant a tree  Wicked Local Marblehead

The undeniable power of one  Deccan Herald

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BiodiversityNew: Wangari Maathai: Building change by planting trees https://t.co/GdoyWrIRta

TheCircleNGO: Wangari Maathai was a Kenyan scholar and envir@!~mental activist. She founded the pi@!~eering Green Belt Movement in… https://t.co/y3hKTCkDoT

she won the novbel peace prize she spent het wholi life working to protect the environment.

wangari maathai was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2004.she (praise)__ by the nobel committee as a source of inspiration for everyone in africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace.when she started her green belt movement in 1977,kenya was suffering from deforestation and desertification .thousands of trees (cut down) and many families (leave) in poverty as a result.since then ,her successful campaign to mobilize women to plant some 30 million trees (copy) by other countries.during that time the movement (transform) into a campaign on education ,nutrition and other issues.her campaign has not always been popular.mrs maathai (arrest) several times for campaigning against deforestation in africa and once she (beat) unconscious by heavy handed police .but in elections in 2002 she (elect) as an mp as a part of an opposition coalition which swept to power and she (appoint) as a deputy environment minister in 2003