LA Times: The greeting outside Ward African Methodist Episcopal Church on Saturday was meant to send a clear message that their special guest and keynote speaker could feel at home. Wangari Muta Maathai, the founder of Kenya’s Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, received fresh bouquets of flowers as she walked to the church, down a street filled with the musical sounds of ululating women dancing to the rhythms of African drummers. In Los …