Hello people, Today we have to write about a person that have won a Nobel prize, and the person that I choose is call Wangari Maathai that have win the Nobel in 2004 and I Choose it because her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai was born on 1 April 1940 in the village of Ihithe, she was a Kenyan environmental and political activist, she died last year on 25 September in 2011. in 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel peace price. he was an elected member of Parliament and served as assistant minister for environment and natural resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki.
Maathai During the first multi-party election of Kenya, in 1992, strove to unite the opposition and promote free and fair elections in Kenya. Mwai Kibaki, the former vice president, had left the ruling Kenya African National Union party, and formed the Democratic Party, the democracy was push by wangari maathai. When she won the Nobel prize she planted a tree and before she died it were planted about 47 million pushed by her.
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