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520 $a "Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa's most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long career as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of the Green Belt Movement, a conservation effort that resulted in the restoration of African forests decimated during the colonial era. In this biography, Tabitha Kanogo follows Wangari Maathai from her modest, small-town Kenyan upbringing to her rise as a national figure campaigning for environmental and ecological conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty until her death in 2011"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Maathai, Wangari. 610 20 $a Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) 600 17 $a Maathai, Wangari. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00202367 610 27 $a Green Belt Movement (Society : Kenya) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00625602 650 0 $a Women conservationists $z Kenya $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women politicians $z Kenya $v Biography. 650 0 $a Nobel Prize winners $z Kenya $v Biography. 650 7 $a Nobel Prize winners. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01741182 650 7 $a Women conservationists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177526 650 7 $a Women politicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178383 651 7 $a Kenya. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208718 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211102015315.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=687030ACBC2911EAAC3CDF0297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWA