List of Famous people named Wangari

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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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