Wangari was the very first song we learned when we came together in January 2010 to form Singing Together. What I didn't realise at the time was the story behind the song.

Wangari Maathai rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa - poor women. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) A pioneering academic, her role as an environmental campaigner began after she planted some trees in her back garden. Her campaign to mobilise poor women to plant some 30 million trees has been copied by other countries.

Her former husband, whom she divorced in the 1980s, was said to have remarked that she was "too educated, too strong, too successful, too stubborn and too hard to control".

Wangari
Sow the seed it will be one more tree to grace the earth, Wangari, Wangari.
Sow the seed it will be one more tree to grace the earth, Wangari, Wangari.
One seed, one tree, one woman unbowed. One seed, one tree, one woman unbowed.
One seed, one tree, one woman unbowed. One seed, one tree, one woman unbowed.
Sow the seed it will be one more tree to grace the earth


I put the music track with some images of Wangari to create this video.