Life through my mother’s lens

An apple, they say, never falls far away from the tree and for Wanjira Mathai (pictured), that metaphor has been true in a literal sense. The daughter of renowned environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner the late Wangari Maathai finds solace in the tranquility of Karura, a forest that saw her mother’s blood spilled by overzealous security agents in a bid to force her abandon her crusade to save it from grabbers.