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Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Muta Maathai was a Kenyan politician and environmentalist.

Wangari Maathai was a Nobel Laureate of many firsts: the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.


Born on this day, she was a committed

environmentalist and founded the Green Belt Movement which led to the planting of millions of trees.

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