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Wangari Maathai

Nobel Peace Price Winner

  She was the first African women to receive the Nobel Peace price in 2004 for her contribuition on sustainable development, democracy and peace. I believe that Wangari deserved to win because not only did she became the first African women to win the Nobel Peace Price, she was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate and the first female professor even in her home country of Kenya. Also in 1997 she started a grass-roots movement aimed at countering the deforestation that was threatening the means of subsistence of the agricultural population. The campaign encouraged women to plant trees in their local environments and to think ecologically. The so-called Green Belt Movement spread to other African countries, and contributed to the planting of over thirty million trees. Maathai's mobilization of African women was not limited in its vision to work for sustainable development; she saw tree-planting in a broader perspective which included democracy, women's rights, and international solidarity. In the words of the Nobel Committee: "She thinks globally and acts locally."

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