It is worth remembering that a similar thing happened when a tribal woman  became the first in Africa to get a Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.  It was Wangari Muta Maathai from Kenya who got this honor.  Wangari was born in a small village named Inithe in Nyerere Dist. of Kenya. She  studied in the United States earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences from Mount  St Scholastically, Kansas, and a Master’s Degree in Veterinary Anatomy  from the University of Pittsburgh under the Kennedy Airlift  Programme. Wangari went on to become the first woman in East & Central Africa to earn … Continue reading Dr. Wangari Maathai – Africa’s First Nobel Laureate And The Mother  Of The Green Belt Movement