Article: EDITORIAL: A commitment to peaceful change.(Editorial)

Nov. 19--She was raised in the Aberdare Mountains north of Nairobi. If not for an older brother pleading her case with their parents, she likely wouldn't have gone to school beyond eighth grade. As it was, Maathai became part of the "Kennedy Airlift," a 1960s scholarship program that brought young African students to America. She graduated from Mount St. Scholastica College in Kansas, received a master's at the University of Pittsburgh, and later a doctorate back home. While teaching veterinary anatomy at the University of Nairobi in the mid-1970s, Maathai became involved with the National Council of Women of Kenya. Through that organization she learned about the ...

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