Documentary: Wangari Muta Maathai (1940 - 2011)

Wangari Muta Mary Jo Maathai (1 April 1940 -- 25 September 2011) was a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In the 1970s, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. In 1986, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as assistant minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. In 2011, Maathai died of complications from ovarian cancer. (More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai)

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[munenegl]

I wonder what MOI could think if he could watch this documentary. That man and his crooks literally destroyed this country

[falconsgladiator]

This was a great documentary. Very well done. Keep it up.

[earlsdownhse]

one never knows what he / she is holding unless they let it go. rest in peace mama

[NusuKappeti]

RIP! You are my hero!! God bless you and those you left behind!!

[15202425864]

always good thing never leave longer,RIP our mama

[1980aivilo1]

Those who perpetrated these evils are still alive!!!!Have they been brought before courts of law to answer for illegal allocation of forests to wealthy individuals who are loyal to the regime?????

[engineer14]

Goodbye Kenya's Rose May you ever grow in our hearts You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart You called out to our country And you whispered to those in pain Now you belong to heaven And the stars spell out your name And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never fading with the sunset When the rain set in And your footsteps will always fall you Along Kenya's greenest hills Your candle's burned out long before Your legend never will

[bilobrown]

AMAZING!!!!

[jesumuraika1]

We wish you never died

[mmotume42]

YOU WERE A ROLE MODEL, R.I.P