Women who changed the world: Wangari Maathai. | Nobel Prize

In 2004, Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to receive the honor. #todayinhistory Maathai was a Kenyan activist who established the Green Belt Movement. She promoted environmental stewardship, women's rights and peaceful resistance. She died of cancer in 2011. She was 71. https://trib.al/Cgf7Ntm | NPR

Defender of the earth, fighter for democracy. Today we're celebrating Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai. #WangariMaathaiDay | Nobel Prize

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAURENT WANGARI MAATHAI ON 'TRIBE' 🎥 The late Dr. Wangari Maathai reminds us in this powerful video on how effective the 'divide & conquer' strategy was used to divide Africans, rob of their sense of unity of purpose, that of oneness and how effective it was used to destroy identity by the European colonizers. Today, much of the divisions witnessed from North to South, East to West of Africa, and in the African diaspora can be traced to this period. HOW ONE SEES HIMSELF OR HER