Wangari Maathai was the first Black African woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in environmental conservation. In the 1970s, she founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental ...

The review found that previous research often grouped black women from diverse backgrounds together, including black African and black Caribbean, masking important cultural nuances and different ...

She was the first Black African woman to be awarded a degree from the University of Oxford. Kofoworola studied English Literature and Education at St Hugh’s College, Oxford from 1932 to 1935 and ...