Wanjira is keeping Wangari Maathai’s legacy alive

On October 8, 2004, Wangari Maathai was travelling to Tetu constituency as she always did every Friday to work with the constituents over the weekend.

Green Belt Movement and Wangare Maathai foundation Board chair, daughter of Wangari Maathai Wanjira Mathai explains that the late Wangari was the first African woman to form a green political party after the Walk from Jevanjee gardens to Uhuru Park during the fourth Wangari Maathai Memorial on Friday, September 25th, 2015. The late Wangari Mathai fought for the conservation of both Jevanjee Gardens and Uhuru Park Freedom Corner as public grounds which should be preserved for planting trees for kenyans all over the country. (PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/ STANDARD)

She was unaware that on the other side of the world, in Oslo, Norway, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, Chair of the Nobel Prize Committee was making the announcement that Wangari, the then Member of Parliament for Tetu, was the winner of the most prestigious award in the world.