WANGARI MAATHAI

Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai was born the 1st of April on 1940 in Nyeri District and she died the 25th of September in Nairobi on 2011. She was a Kenyan environmental and political activist.

Wangari Maathai with her prize.

She was educated in the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights.

In 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace". She had received a call from Ole Danbolt Mjos, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on October the 8th, informing her of the news. She became the first African woman, and the first environmentalist, to win the prize.

Maathai was selected member of Parliament and she worked as the minister for Environment and Natural Resources, and in 2011, Maathai died of complications from ovarian cancer.

I have decided to write for this women because I was with her in the movements that she done to want the peace and the democracy. I'm very happy with her, because I have entered that she was the first African women that won this title, and this is a very important event for women.

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