The first black African woman to receive a Nobel Prize in 2004 is_________?

A. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
B. Mangari Haathai
C. Wangari Maathai
D. Waanga Heath

Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate (in biology), and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya.