This date in 2011 we lost the late, great Prof. Wangari Maathai. Recall Kenya's President Moi's plans to destroy Nairobi's Uhuru Park for a tower in 1989, she got them scrapped despite HUGE opposition. For such acts, she's the 1st African woman Nobel Peace Prize recepient, 2004

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