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How was Wangari Maathai's early life?

Wangari Muta Maathai was born in in Tetu village in the central highlands of Kenya, about kilometers (99 miles) from Kenya's capital city Nairobi. She was among young Africans in the 's to study in the United States through the Kennedy Airlift scholarship program.

What were Wangari Maathai's achievements in academia?

She studied biological sciences in the USA, where she drew inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement. Further studies brought her back to Kenya and then to Germany. Maathai was the first woman from East and Central Africa to earn a doctoral degree; she went on to become the first woman associate professor in East and Central Africa. In Wangari Maathai became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Nairobi, where she took her post as associate professor the following year.

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