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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai shows her prize to a cheering crowd as she returns from Norway, in Nairobi in this December 30, 2004 file photo
Monday, Sep. 26, 2011

Open quoteThe values she had for justice and civil liberties and what she believed were the obligations of civil society and government.Close quote

  • VERTISTINE MBAYA,
  • professor and longtime friend of Wangari Maathai, who died over the weekend at age 71 after a battle with cancer; Maathai was the first African female recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her founding of the Green Belt Movement
Photo: Radu Sigheti / Files / Reuters | Source: AP