2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize.
Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai was educated in the U.S., then returned to Kenya and became a social, environmental and political activist 
In 1977, when she was 37 years old, Wangari Maathai established what she called the "Green Belt Movement."

2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai was educated in the U.S., then returned to Kenya and became a social, environmental and political activist In 1977, when she was 37 years old, Wangari Maathai established what she called the "Green Belt Movement."

2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize.
Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai was educated in the U.S., then returned to Kenya and became a social, environmental and political activist&nbsp;
In 1977, when she was 37 years old, Wangari Maathai established what she called the "Green Belt Movement."

Wangari Maathai

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