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What'sHerName

THE UNBOWED Wangari Maathai

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8538 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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 activist and environmentalist Virginia Phiri. Music featured in this episode provided by Winyo, and the Friends Church Kaimosi - used by permission. Want to help us “make history”? Become a Patron or Donate here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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When we are planting trees, sometimes people will say to me, I don't want to plant this tree because it will not grow fast enough.

1:14.6

I have to keep reminding them that the trees they are cutting today were not planted by them,

1:21.6

but by those who came before.

1:24.6

So they must plant the trees that will benefit communities in the future. I remind them

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that like a seedling, with sun, good soil and abundant rain, the roots of our future will bury

1:38.4

themselves in the ground and a canopy of hope will reach into the sky.

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