Wangari Muta Maathai receives Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
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A distinctly African setting framed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to the first woman from that continent to receive the prestigious honor.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari  Maathai said Friday she had been told by a Norwegian diplomat  that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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To the beat of African drums, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, telling the audience of royals, celebrities and diplomats that protecting the world's resources is ...
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A Kenyan woman who has spent her life fighting for the environment of her home country won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Wangari Maathai (pronounced wan-GAH-ree mah-DHEYE) founded the &quot;Green Belt Movement
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OSLO -- The first African woman and the first Kenyan to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award yesterday to the beat of drums and dancers that broke with the usual stodgy ceremony.
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.
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WHEN Wangari Maathai got word she had won the Nobel Peace Prize, she was busy with the work that earned her the prestigious award - campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to hungry constituents suffering from drought.
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A Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner has been awarded the Nobel peace prize, becoming the first African woman to win the prestigious award since it was created in 1901.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for her work planting tens of millions of trees  to save the environment. The award marks a new theme in  interpreting the 1895 will of Sweden's Alfred Nobel, who  founded the prize.
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IHURURU, Kenya Oct. 8, 2004 - When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for leading a campaign to plant tens of millions of  trees across Africa to slow deforestation.
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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai. The African native is an environmentalist and human rights campaigner.
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Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said she hopes being the first environmentalist to win the prize will help others understand that the struggle to protect the Earth's resources is linked to the promotion of peace.
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By Sara Newman  Wangari Maathai, 66, the first woman in east and central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Green Belt Movement.
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan firebrand who mobilized the women of Africa in a powerful crusade against deforestation called the "Green Belt Movement," will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004.
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The award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to ecologist Wangari Maathai dominated the Kenya media as soon as the news broke. TV and radio channels on Friday reported the announcement extensively and Saturday&#39;s newspapers are similarly ecstatic.