Thursday, February 3: A film about Nobel Peace Prize Laurate Wangari Maathai After the 6:30 PM First Friday potluck dinner, the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus will screen Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai at 7:30 PM. This PBS ...

On Sunday morning, the Secretary-General participated in a tree-planting ceremony in memory of Wangari Maathai at the African Union Commission conference and office complex. Addressing the leaders at the opening ceremony afterwards, the Secretary-General ...

Albert finished off by quoting the late environmental activist Wangari Maathai, Africa's first woman Nobel Peace laureate. "You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are ...

A portion of all sales is donated to the Green Belt Movement, the tree planting activities endorsed by Dr. Wangari Maathai. Starting on June 20, 2010, Eco Action Points will be awarded in accordance with the quantity of products purchased at MOTTINAI SHOP ...

The opening ceremony on Jan. 29 will pay tribute to the memory of the late Prof. Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former Presiding Officer of the AU Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC). The other major activity on Jan. 29 is the ...

At the moment of the visit their mother Mary Wangari was still complaining of stomachache is bodily weakness while his son Tyson was still asleep the way he remains after he was admitted last night. Kerugoya district hospital Medical Superintendent Bernard ...

Annulment of June 12 deprived Maryam of winning Nobel Prize And let me tell you if Abiola had become the President, Maryam Babangida would have won the Nobel Prize because for the first time, that Kenyan woman Wangari Maathai who got the prize and Mrs ...

Wangari Maathi, the first African woman to receive the Nobel Prize—awarded for her founding of the Green Belt Movement—spoke at a nearby university the week before my first treatment. I wanted to be in the presence of this woman, who had ...

"The closest I came to getting an African book online was Wangari Maathai's book The Challenge for Africa, but it was only available for readers in the UK," she said. A search for Kenyan published books on Amazon bares very few results.

“If I’d met (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Wangari Matthi in 1977, when she planted seven trees on World Food Day, and you told me they’d grow to 11 billion trees, I would have laughed.” Yet that’s exactly what happened. She calls herself a possibilis