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WangarÄ© Muta Maathai 1 April 1940 â 25 September 2011) was aKenyan social, environmental and political activist and the first African womanto win the Nobel Peace Prize. [1] As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift shestudied in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree from Mount St. Scholasticaand a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to becomethe first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy,receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She tells of hernumerous run ins with the brutal government of Daniel arap Moi and of the political and personal reasonsthat compelled her in to establish the Green Belt Movement which spread fromKenya across Africa and which helps restore indigenous forests while assistingrural women by paying them to plant trees in their villages
