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Subject(s): Summary: Professor Wangari Maathai Party:Liberal Party ( LP) Age: 57 Years old Propfessor wangari Maathai was the first Kenyan woman to obtain a doctorate, She is Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nairobi and has never been in parliament. She is internationally renowned as an activist in the Green Belt Movement, a militant environment conservation group. She was born in Tetu, Nyeri in 1940. She attended Itithe Primary School between 1948 and 1951, St. Cecilia's Girls between 1952 and 1955 and Loreto Girls Limuru between 1956 and 1959. She later proceeded to the United States of America where she studied at Scholastica College between 1960 and 1964 and the University of Pittsburg between 1964 and 1965. She returned to Kenya in 1966 to become a Research Assistant at the University of Nairobi. She is well known for her environmental work as Co-ordinator of the Greenbelt Movement. She has won many national and international awards which have made her stature as a senior citizen rivaled only by very few. She has in the past roughed the government the wrong way by engaging in political activism. Her most celebrated achievement was in 1988 when she launched an international campaign that forced Moi to drop plans to build an utra-modern skyscraper at Uhuru park. Moi said in public that she had insects in her head and soon after her NGO was evicted from its offices. She was a member of the pioneer Opposition party, FORD that was led by the late Oginga Odinga, Wangari was in early January 1992 arrested along with colleague and former legislator, James Orengo, on a charge of publishing a false document. Prior to the arrest, police laid a two-day siege to her Nairobi house, before breaking down the doors to drag her out. This was at the height of the quest for political pluralism. She was later to be carried into the courts in pain after suffering an acute bout of rheumatism after sleeping on the cold floor of a police cell, to face charges that were later dropped, leaving her physically drained, but mentally and psychologically empowered. Wangari partly attributes her decision to join in the quest for the presidency to this failure, and to the pressure from her supporters. She believes her participation in the presidential race would spur more Kenyans to come out and vote for the opposition. She attributes Kanu's victory at the last General Election to the divisions within the Opposition, and its subsequent refusal to field a single candidate. She is the second woman candidate for the presidency, and will be standing on the Liberal Party ticket. The other woman candidate is Charity Kaluki Ngilu of the Social Democratic Party.
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Professor Wangari Maathai Party:Liberal Party ( LP) Age: 57 Years old Propfessor wangari Maathai was the first Kenyan woman to obtain a doctorate, She is Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nairobi and has never been in parliament. She is internationally renowned as an activist in the Green Belt Movement, a militant environment conservation group. She was born in Tetu, Nyeri in 1940. She attended Itithe Primary School between 1948 and 1951, St. Cecilia's Girls between 1952 and 1955 and Loreto Girls Limuru between 1956 and 1959. She later proceeded to the United States of America where she studied at Scholastica College between 1960 and 1964 and the University of Pittsburg between 1964 and 1965. She returned to Kenya in 1966 to become a Research Assistant at the University of Nairobi. She is well known for her environmental work as Co-ordinator of the Greenbelt Movement. She has won many national and international awards which have made her stature as a senior citizen rivaled only by very few. She has in the past roughed the government the wrong way by engaging in political activism. Her most celebrated achievement was in 1988 when she launched an international campaign that forced Moi to drop plans to build an utra-modern skyscraper at Uhuru park. Moi said in public that she had insects in her head and soon after her NGO was evicted from its offices. She was a member of the pioneer Opposition party, FORD that was led by the late Oginga Odinga, Wangari was in early January 1992 arrested along with colleague and former legislator, James Orengo, on a charge of publishing a false document. Prior to the arrest, police laid a two-day siege to her Nairobi house, before breaking down the doors to drag her out. This was at the height of the quest for political pluralism. She was later to be carried into the courts in pain after suffering an acute bout of rheumatism after sleeping on the cold floor of a police cell, to face charges that were later dropped, leaving her physically drained, but mentally and psychologically empowered. Wangari partly attributes her decision to join in the quest for the presidency to this failure, and to the pressure from her supporters. She believes her participation in the presidential race would spur more Kenyans to come out and vote for the opposition. She attributes Kanu's victory at the last General Election to the divisions within the Opposition, and its subsequent refusal to field a single candidate. She is the second woman candidate for the presidency, and will be standing on the Liberal Party ticket. The other woman candidate is Charity Kaluki Ngilu of the Social Democratic Party.

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