Heroine Away From Home: Prof. Wangari Mathai’s Statue Erected In US
She may have left us a few years ago but Prof. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist of all time left a memory that will always and almost forever linger on amidst us.
She endured difficult times to make Kenya and its environment a better place for us. She won the Nobel Prize, thanks to her exploits in the environment sector.
This perhaps is the reason why Maathai has continued to gain recognition in the world for her good work.
Her classmates in the 1960s have opted to erect a bronze statue of the late professor in Kansas City in America to honour the fallen heroine.
The statue will be to remember the noble work Maathai did while she was alive and encourage many more to pick from where she left.
Here is the statue:
