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Topic: Nobel Peace Prize

Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace laureate

Wednesday, 6/24, 04:40 PM

Wangari Maathai: the Kenyan who turned tree-planting into a fight for democracy

From a rural village in Kenya's central highlands to the Nobel stage in Oslo, Wangari Maathai (1940–2011) built a movement that planted tens of millions of trees and, in doing so, redrew the world's understanding of how environment, democracy and peace fit together.

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