Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) led a life of firsts. She was the first woman in either East Africa and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, the first female professor in Kenya, and the first Black African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. This latter accolade was in part due to her tireless environmentalism, which involved planting more than 20 million trees through her grassroots organization, the Green Belt Movement.
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