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Chicago Humanities Festival: Wangari Maathai
Chicago Humanities Festival: Wangari Maathai
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Length:
82 minutes
Released:
Sep 23, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize. Maathai was elected to Kenya's National Assembly with 98 percent of the vote in 2002 and in 2003 was appointed assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife. She is the author of "The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience". Co-sponsors: The Division of the Humanities and Rockefeller Chapel.
Released:
Sep 23, 2007
Format:
Podcast episode
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