Why I think about the work of Wangari Maathai so often

And why the light she shines on the history of her homeland (Kenya) told me so much about my own

A London Plane Tree in Belgrade. I think it’s the biggest tree I’ve ever met.

Although now I think about and hear about Wangari Maathai all the time, when I picked up one of her books by chance in the library several years ago I did not know who she was. I’d somehow missed out on the hype…