1. WANGARI MUTA MAATHAI
Manuel Alejandro Moreno Cano
Daniel Navarro Acemel
4ºESO B

2. Wangari Maathai: INTRODUCTION
• Wangari (1940-2011) was a Kenyan environmental
and political activist.
• She received the Nobel Peace Price and she was
the first african woman to receive it

3. Wangari Maathai: HER LIFE 1
• She was born on 1 April 1940, in ‘Lhithe’, a central
village of Kenya.
• Maathai was a Kikuyu member ( Kikuyu group was
an ethnic group)
• She received the scholarship and years after she
got a master’s degree in biology

4. Wangari Maathai: HER LIFE 2
• She also granted Doctorate of Anatomy from the
University College of Nairobi .
• A few years later, Mathai led the Department
of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Naibori

5. Wangari Maathai: ACTIVISM
• She founded the GREEN BELT MOVEMENT in
1977.
• She went to prison several times.
• Maathai wanted an end to corruption and the
freedom to vote to different political parties.

6. Wangari Maathai: Nobel Prize
• She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for
her "contribution to sustainable development,
democracy and peace“
• She became the first African woman, and the first
environmentalist, to win the prize.

7. Wangari Maathai: Achievements
• She saved Nairobi’s Uhuru Park stopping the
construction of a tourist resort there.
• She has been mentioned Minister since 2003 to
2011
• In 2005 she was chosen as the president of African
Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council

8. Wangari Maathai: Awards
1984: Right Livelihood Award
1991: Goldman Environmental Prize
1991: Africa Prize
1993: Edinburgh Medal
2004: Petra Kelly Prize
2004: Sophie Prize
2004: Nobel Peace Prize

9. Wangari Maathai: Death
• A cancer killed Wangari Maathai on September
2011.
• Lots of women have been influenced and
encouraged to manifest after Maathai’s example.

10. "Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and
make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just
talking."