Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Monday, September 26, 2011

Kenya's Two Most Famous Women Die Within Weeks Of One Another

Kenya:Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai dies

Maathai was an environmentalist who launched the Green Belt Movement which had an international impact.



http://www.afronline.org/?p=19427



Freedom fighter Wambui Otieno dies aged 75

Wambui was a militant feminist who was arrested by the Brits for organizing a woman's wing of the Mau Mau movement. She wrote a memoir, Mau Mau's Daughter.




http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000041891&cid=4&story=Freedom%20fighter%20Wambui%20Otieno%20dies%20aged%2075



Here is a nice article about her:

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76636
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