Prof Wangari Maathai is a legend that we all need to celebrate and it has not been the same in this country.
Countries worldwide have celebrated this Nobel laureate and given her accolades all over.
The Nobel Prize Laureate is celebrated for her efforts to conserve the environment and she spearheaded the planting of millions of trees while many others continue to be planted in her absence as a result of the initiative.
Among the many renown world leaders she planted trees with include the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama, former President Mwai Kibaki and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
As a result of her activism efforts, Maathai became the first woman and environmentalist to bag the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize award in 2004.
In the US, Maathai was honoured by a Catholic Church-run college, The Benedictine College, which created a statue of her. She was part of the 1964 class in that institution.
Back home, Maathai has been honoured by, modestly enough, having the former Forest Roadre-branded to Prof. Wangari Maathai Road.
And just recently Kenya woke up to this on social media:a tree stump of a cut tree that had been planted by The Prof years back.
