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Wangari Maathai

1940 – 2011

East Africa (Kenya)

Kenyan biologist and the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate (1971). She founded the Green Belt Movement, a tree-planting campaign, and won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Wangari Maathai being interviewed at a conference in Salvador, Brazil
Credit: Antônio Cruz/Agência Brasil, via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY 3.0 BR.

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Sources

  1. The Nobel Prize, "Wangari Maathai – Biographical" (Primary source)
  2. The Green Belt Movement, "Biography of Wangari Maathai" (Primary source)

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