# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:43.363Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Wangari Maathai came to the United States through the Kennedy Airlift, earned degrees in Kansas and Pittsburgh, then returned to Kenya to become the first woman in East and Central Africa to receive a Ph.D., from the University of Nairobi. In 1977 she founded the Green Belt Movement, linking environmental conservation with women's rights and transforming ecological debate into direct action: millions of trees planted across the country. The work earned her the Right Livelihood Award in 1984 for "converting the Kenyan ecological debate into mass action for reforestation." She entered parliament, served as assistant minister for environment and natural resources under President Mwai Kibaki from 2003 to 2005, and wrote extensively on ecology, development, gender, and African cultures. She died of ovarian cancer complications on 25 September 2011.