Nobel Peace prize winner a Pitt, U. Nairobi alumnae
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Pitt alumnae Wangari Muta Maathai has been awarded the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, making her the first African woman to receive the award.
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Special to the Journal-World. The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize is remembered fondly by the nuns who taught her in Atchison.
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OSLO - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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OSLO - African dancers and drummers transformed the traditionally sober Nobel Peace Prize ceremony into an African celebration Friday as Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai took centre stage to receive her award.
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(AGI) - Rome, Italy, 8 October. - The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Kenyan, Wangari Maathai, founder and head of &quot;Green Belt&quot; constitutes &quot;a choice of great importance that tends to raise the importance
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OSLO  - More women need to do jobs where they take decisions if they are to play a role in peace-making, this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, said in Oslo a day before receiving the prestigious award.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize accepted her award on Friday. She urged her audience &quot;to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.
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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 Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has congratulated Kenya born Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr.
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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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Among those tipped to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday are the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its leader Mohamed ElBaradei, a Kenyan environmentalist and a Russian anti-nuclear activist.
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and who has campaigned for women&#39;s rights and greater democracy in her home country, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos in Oslo City Hall.
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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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She is the first African woman to be awarded the peace prize since it was created in 1901. A surprised Mrs Maathai broke the news to reporters minutes before the official announcement.
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Kenya&#39;s environmentalist Wangari Maathai said Friday that she feels &quot;very excited&quot; to win the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and pledges to continue to plant the seeds of peace with her fellow Kenyans.
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Human rights and environmental activists have hailed the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society