Seven years ago Wangari Maathai became the first African woman ... Unable to take her family with her, she left her young children with her husband, with whom they lived for several years.

IN MANY ways it seems odd that Wangari Maathai's life should have been so ... feminist campaigns and politics, both at her husband's side (he became a member of parliament) and in her own right ...

Wangari Maathai was a woman of many firsts ... She was repeatedly “jailed and beaten” by forces loyal to the government. Her husband divorced her in 1979, claiming his wife was “too strong ...

(WOMENSENEWS)--My engagement with the late Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai ... My first meeting with Maathai was in May 2002 when Alan Dater, my husband and filmmaking partner, and I ...

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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was only another triumph in the unlikely rise to prominence of Wangari ... (including her husband's surprise departure from the young family). But Maathai was undeterred ...

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Wangari Maathai ... She also exasperated her husband, who divorced Maathai in 1979, reportedly complaining that she was “too educated, too strong ...

Wangari Maathai died of ovarian cancer in Nairobi ... Maathai had to take refuge in a safe house to avoid being murdered. She and her husband, Mwang, a member of parliament, divorced in the ...

Maathai – or Mama Wangari as she is known to Kenyans for ... She was divorced from her husband. Kenya’s government is understood to be considering several days of official mourning and there ...

Her husband divorced her in the early 1980s, accusing her of adultery. Wangari Maathai suggested that the real reason was that she was “too educated, too strong, too successful, too stubborn and ...

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