Wangari Maathai
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2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. Kenyan-born Wangari Maathai was educated in the U.S., then returned to Kenya and became a social, environmental and political activist In 1977, when she was 37 years old, Wangari Maathai established what she called the "Green Belt Movement."
