Wangari Maathai News, Pictures & Buzz

New Dollar General format store opens in downtown Minneapolis  Mshale African Community Newspaper

Remembering Sr Colombiere Kelly and Sr Breid Cunningham | ICN  Independent Catholic News

In Uganda's Elections, Activist Stella Nyanzi Could Win Parliamentary Seat  Foreign Policy

Here are the top 20 books Kenyans read in 2020  Nairobi News

Three charter schools get state OK to expand, three more to start in Providence  The Providence Journal

Phyllis Omido: The African Erin Brockovich | DW | 10.12.2020  Deutsche Welle

9 Inspirational Women Leaders From the Last 100 Years You Should Definitely Know  Global Citizen

Book review: Dr. Wangari Maathai plants a forest  Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Money for artistic diversity is scarce but that may change  Orlando Sentinel

Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president  BBC News

Kenya spares sacred fig tree from destruction  Africanews English

In Kenya, a Cherished Fig Tree Gets a Reprieve  The New York Times

A Famed Fig Tree’s Days Are Numbered as a New Highway Plows Through  The New York Times

9 Diverse Memoirs You Should Add to Your Reading List  Book Riot

One woman's fight to save Nairobi's playgrounds and public spaces  Thomson Reuters Foundation

NEA Big Read touches on current times with 'Lab Girl,' 'Seeds of Change'  Poughkeepsie Journal

Yes, Science Is Political  Scientific American

Meet the artist who tells Congo's history on jute | DW | 02.10.2020  Deutsche Welle

15 quotes about planting trees, from the economics to poetic value  Landscape News

Boston charter school wants to open Providence branch and enroll 2,000  The Providence Journal

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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