WANGARI MAATHAI – FOR SUSTAINABILITY, A SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLE THAT CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN: FROM AFRICA TO THE WORLD!

Abstract

The article presents the life of Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman and political activist for the environment, empowered by the notion of environmental justice and fully aware of her political-historical context, weaving with her countrymen from historically marginalized communities a new, more sustainable and democratic country. In a post-colonialist historical context that is still quite sectarian evidenced in this narrative, we reinforce ecofeminism in a decolonial vision as an example. Pointing out ways of social organization that potentiated alternative actions in favor of socio-environmental sustainability, that is, in an additive perspective through a geopolitical historiography – coupling it with the environmental reality in contemporaneity; from Africa to the world. In an educational practice in Geography and Biology classes in Basic Education, with 2nd year classes at the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG), Campus I, Belo Horizonte-MG.