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Kenya: Wangari Maathai on the Environment and African Leadership

Sunday, April 19th, 2009 @ 21:47 UTC

by Juliana Rotich

Countries:: Kenya
Topics:: Economics, Environment, Politics

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On the blog Safari Notes, Omar Basawad writes some pertinent qoutes from a profile of Prof. Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize winning environmentalist.

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