Wangari Maathai Nobel laureate

I watched Wangari Maathai receive the Nobel Peace Prize last year, and had heard and read bits about her. Tonight I stumbled across an excellent and inspiring article about her.

She’s been called many things. Among the rural poor of Kenya she’s known as the Green Crusader or Green Militant. Former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi called her ‘a mad woman’, and declared her a serious threat to the stability of the country. Her husband said she was ‘too educated, too strong, too successful, too stubborn and too hard to control’. And now professor Wangari Maathai has been named as a Nobel laureate.

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