..............founded the Green Belt Movement in the 1970s seeking to promote environmental conservation in Kenya and Africa.

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• …………….. was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
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• The Green Belt movement was supported by the ............... Forestry Society and Maathai later gained a job as coordinator.
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• A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, ……………. was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa.