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Boniface Mwangi’s unique marriage proposal from Nelson Mandela’s cell

Boniface Mwangi and his wife Hellen Njeri on their wedding day

Kenyan photojournalist and human rights Boniface Mwangi has revealed the unorthodox marriage proposal he made to his wife, Hellen Njeri Mwangi.

Despite swearing to never marry a journalist, politician or a younger man (fitting Mwangi’s description), Njeri’s reservations were thrown away after Mwangi proposed to her from Nelson Mandela’s cell on Robben Island, South Africa.

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