Wangari Maathai

I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me…

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local…

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost…

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not…

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones…

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at…

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture…

African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the…

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify…

It’s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing…