|
|
Article: EDITORIAL: A commitment to peaceful change.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2006
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Baltimore Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
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 ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Nairobi finds: Blixen's house, rock lobster, Daisy the ...
Chicago Sun-Times;
February 28, 1988 ;
700+ words
...Last in a series NAIROBI There's a problem with Karen Blixen's house in the suburbs of Nairobi: It's the real Karen Blixen house. "So ... to Kenya. And they're right: Because of Nairobi's suburban sprawl, producer-director ...
|
|