The late Prof. Wangari Maathai is arguably one of the most celebrated icons all over the world and despite being dead now, her legacy and good deeds live on.
Wangari Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She authored four books: The Green Belt Movement; Unbowed: A Memoir; The Challenge for Africa; and Replenishing the Earth.
As well as having been featured in a number of books, she and the Green Belt Movement were the subject of a documentary film, Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai (Marlboro Productions, 2008).
She advocated for forestation through her greenbelt movement.
At home, She might just be another prominent Kenya who passed away but abroad she is still a household name whose deeds continue to touch many to an extent of being honoured.
The French Government has named a school after the Late Wangari Maathai to all but show that she is still a household name out there.
Well, this must be treated by Kenyans as a Challenge given that just a few weeks ago, a tree planted in honour of Wangari Maathai was cut down.
In 2014, a Wangari Maathai Statue was erected in the US by the Sisters of Mount St Scholastica Monastery and the Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, US, to mark the 50th reunion of Mount St Scholastica College’s Class of 1964 .
