“The food never changed: corn and beans at lunch, at dinner ugali and vegetables, such as cabbages, spinach, pumpkins, and onions.”~~Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
Born in 1940, Maathai was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement, whose mission to plant trees across Africa restored lush landscape to the continent.