Wangari Maathai was the first woman in Central Africa to earn a PhD, the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the mother of the Ecofeminist movement — and that’s just the beginning! Discover the life of this remarkable, brilliant, world-changing woman with our guest, author and environmentalist Virginia Phiri.
The Green Belt Movement website is here.
You can watch Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Prize speech here.
Virginia Phiri is an author and activist in Zimbabwe. Phiri has written both fiction and non-fiction books in English, and in two of Zimbabwe’s local languages, chiShona and isiNdebele. She is founder of Zimbabwe Women Writers and Zimbabwean Academic and Non Fiction Authors Association. Having been raised in a family of political activists aligned to the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union, she was actively involved in the Zimbabwe’s liberation war at the age of seventeen, Phiri is an accountant by profession, as well as an African orchid expert, who has co-authored orchid articles in journals such as Die Orchidee since 1996. She was an IUCN Africa Committee member up to 2012 and is currently a member of IUCN Species Survival Commission.
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