Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai Dies in Nairobi
Africa & World Politics Monday, September 26th, 2011Prof Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace laureate and conservation heroine, has died in Nairobi after a long battle with cancer. She was 71.
The environmentalist and politician died at the Nairobi Hospital at around 10pm on Sunday, officials at her Greenbelt Movement organisation told Nation.co.ke.
Prof Maathai will be remembered for her fight against the Moi regime’s attempts to build a 60-storey building at Uhuru Park, at the centre of Nairobi city. She next took on powerful individuals in the Moi government who had hived off parts of the Karura forest in the outer fringes of the city.
She also joined mothers of political prisoners in a hunger strike in a quest to force then President Moi to free them.
The environmentalist later joined politics and was in 2002 elected the Member of Parliament for Tetu, Nyeri District and served as an Assistant Minister in President Kibaki’s first government.
Known for her love for trees, Prof Maathai was in 2004 awarded the Nobel peace prize for her conservation efforts.
-Daily Nationwp_posts
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