"A heroine gone to soon without a goodbye" this is what has rocked the air in Nairobi in this 25th day of September. Wangari Maathai was the leader of the greenbelt movement and having achieved numerous awards including the most coveted nobel price she leaves Kenya in great deep sorrow and regret. Her only aim was to create peace and harmony between the environment and the entire human race as quoted in one of her famous quotes “It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not then occur…so, protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace…those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.”
She was born in the year 1940 in Nyeri District of Central Province which borders mount Kenya. Having followed a successful education career including achieving PhD, Anatomy, University of Nairobi (1971) MS, Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA (1966)BS, Biology, Mount St. Scholastica College, USA (1964, she endeered as a Un messanger of peace.
