Irish Nuns Are Everywhere
Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai was at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas on Sunday.
Her friend Florence Conrad Salisbury recalled Maathai teaching her classmates traditional African dances back in their freshman year in 1960, before deciding to enter the school’s talent show:
We were all going to the event, expecting to see this wonderful African dance, Salisbury said. And what did she do but come out and do an Irish jig. She brought the house down. She had been taught it by Irish nuns in Africa
In 2004 Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize when she received it for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”.
Returning to Mount St. Scholastica on Sunday Wangari was seeing friends she hasn’t seen for forty years. There is a whole chapter in her book Unbowed about her experiences at Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, KS.
Read more of Maathai’s Atchison visit HERE
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