Maathai, Wangari (Personal Name)

The Green Belt Movement, 1985?: t.p. (Wangari Maathai) cover, p. 4 (formerly assoc. prof. of anatomy, U. of Nairobi)

Unbowed, 2006: t.p. (Wangari Muta Maathai) jacket flap (born in Nyeri, Kenya, in 1940)

New York times WWW site, Sept. 27, 2011 (Wangari Maathai; Wangari Muta Maathai; b. Apr. 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya; d. Sunday [Sept. 25, 2011], Nairobi, aged 71; Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize)

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition; accessed March, 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Maathai, Wangari; Presidential candidate, organization founder/official, environmentalist, professor; born 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya; studied at Loreto Limuru Girls School; received B.S. degree in biology from Mount Scholastica College, Kansas, (1964); studied at the University of Pittsburgh; continued her graduate study at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (1966); received a Ph.D. in veterinary medicine and became a professor at University of Nairobi; an environmental activist, she founded Green Belt Movement (1977), later supported by United Nations; objected construction of 62-story building Nairobi's Uhuru Park; Kenyan president expelled the Green Belt Movement from Nairobi office; was elected to parliament, was appointed assistant minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife (2002); won Goldman Prize (for environmental activists); Africa Prize for Leadership, Better World Award; was awarded Nobel Peace Prize “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace” (2004))