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Wangari Maathai
Kenyan environmental campaigner and first African woman Nobel Peace Prize winner
Professor Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. She talks to Owen Bennett-Jones about how it all began with growing up in rural Kenya that instilled her values.
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