Wangari Muta Maathai (1 April 1940 - 25 September 2011)
I am proud that she hailed from my home country Kenya, because she made a difference in the world. She was one of the our worlds hero's. Apart from being the voice of "mother nature" she was also her protector. We should follow the example and live on the words of this fallen soldier and let's protect our environment. If you do not know who Professor Wangari Maathai was, you can go look her up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai Know more about her and her passion for nature and what made her the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” in 2004. GET EDUCATED :)
I leave you with a quote from her:
"I kept stumbling and falling and stumbling and falling as I searched for the good. 'Why?' I asked myself. Now I believe that I was on the right path all along, particularly with the Green Belt Movement, but then others told me that I shouldn't have a career, that I shouldn't raise my voice, that women are supposed to have a master. That I needed to be someone else. Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong" Quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman ..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)
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