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...China and Korea against Japan stems from nationalism and economic jockeying for resources, but that's not why people mutilate themselves or jump from bridges. Edward Kim Fullerton, California, U.S. African Heroine I read with interest the Time 100 list of influential people [April 18]. Thank you for including Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Member of Parliament who won the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the environmentalist Green Belt Movement in her country. As your story noted, it is not easy being green in the developing world. The showcasing of Maathai along with several other achievers from Africa will continue...
...Green Nobelist "10 Questions for Wangari Maathai" [Oct. 18], Time's interview with the founder of the tree-planting Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, deeply touched me as well as many other environmentalists. The big issue is that while Africa's ostensible leaders are thinking only about politics, Maathai has shown that she has a new idea for a road map to peace in Africa - sustainable management of natural resources. People like Maathai need to be among the decision makers who set policy for the African Union. Her new approach...
...encouraged the world's poor women to plant 30 million trees. The other creates incendiary fables of female sexuality and subjugation. They make an odd couple, but last week they were united as Nobel laureates: Kenya's Wangari Maathai for the Peace Prize and Austria's Elfriede Jelinek for Literature. It was the second year in which women won both of the most notable Nobels...
...native Kenya, Wangari Maathai has been arrested, beaten unconscious and called subversive. Last week, her fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner - and the first African woman - to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Saturday, Maathai talked with TIME's Stephan Faris under a tree outside the offices of her Green Belt Movement in Nairobi. KOFI ANNAN, NELSON MANDELA, MOTHER TERESA, AND NOW YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL? It is the kind of thing that I'm sure will sink in slowly. But right now, it's like a dream. When you are involved...
Disturbed by shortages of firewood, the essential fuel for Kenya's poor, as well as growing soil erosion and deforestation, Wangari Maathai began a small tree-planting operation in Nairobi in the late 1970s. Composed largely of women, her Green Belt Movement quickly spread throughout Kenya and beyond. Then she turned to politics, including an unsuccessful run for President and protests against reckless development. When President Daniel arap Moi wanted to erect a 62-story office tower in Uhuru (Freedom) Park, a vital public space, her band of mothers and grandmothers forced the dictator to back down...