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Blast From The Past: Wangari Maathai

PROF. WANGARI MAATHAI [CENTRE] CHATS WITH OTHER DOCTORAL STUDENTS AT INSTITUTE OF HISTOLOGY AND EMBRIOLOGY IN MUNICH GERMANY DEC 1968.

All over the world, when Kenya is mentioned two things might come to one's mind. Kenya the great land of athletes or Kenya the mother land of 2004's Nobel peace prize winner and environmentalist Professor Wangari Maathai.

Born Wangari Muta on 1st April 1940 in Ihithe in Nyeri Central Kenya, her birth was no lie neither was the baby girl born that day a fool. She was brains and determination rolled into one tiny bundle of joy that had a great destiny ahead of her.

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