List of Famous people with last name Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai

Wangarĩ Muta
First Name Wangari
Born on April 1, 1940
Died on September 25, 2011 (aged 71)

Wangarĩ Muta Maathai was a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize. As a beneficiary of the Kennedy Airlift she studied in the United States, earning a Bachelor's Degree from Mount St. Scholastica and a Master's Degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She went on to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to become a Doctor of Philosophy, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Nairobi in Kenya.

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