To hear this, visit www.wings.org and click on Archives.
Then use your browser to search for Johnson, or just scroll down to #29-04. You need Windows Media Player. This was a really great interview Mal did for WINGS, which was re-issued when Wangari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mal also gets a credit on #11-07, which was adapted down from a longer video that she helped me produce for the International Women's Roundtable. She speaks in the video, but not in the shorter radio piece.
Description of WINGS #29-04:
WANGARI MAATHAI RETROSPECTIVE Time: 29:00 From the WINGS archive, Wangari Maathai’s address to UNIFEM, September 7, 1990, recorded by Mal Johnson. Maathai explains with wit and candor the politics, the economics and the practical side of the Greenbelt Movement, including its origin in the Kenyan women’s movement. In an interview, Maathai tells Johnson about her struggle with the Kenyan ruling party over plans for a 62-story skyscraper in a public park. It was a pivotal moment for Maathai, who would go on to be beaten and jailed, then run for President, and then become Deputy Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife when a new government finally arrived. On October 8, 2004, Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. Her selection reflects a new understanding in the Nobel Committee about the relationships between environment, democracy, women’s rights, and peace.
--Frieda Werden, producer, WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
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