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