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Unfortunately I have had to revert your edits as you made them on Category:Kenyan feminists a Wikipedia:category page, which is the wrong place for a biographical article. I see we already have an article about Wangari Muta Maathai, now I have no idea what you were trying to do, but please don't do it again. :-\ -220 of ^Borg 12:28, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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Feminism in Kenya

Wangari Muta Maathai
Wangari Maathai holding a trophy awarded to her by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Born	Wangari Muta (1940-04-01)1 April 1940 Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District, Kenya (then known as Nyeri, Kenya Colony)
Died	25 September 2011(2011-09-25) (aged 71) Nairobi, Kenya
Citizenship	Kenyan
Education	B.Sc: biology M.Sc: biological sciences Ph.D: veterinary anatomy
Alma mater	Mount St. Scholastica College University of Pittsburgh University College of Nairobi
Occupation(s)	Environmentalist, political activist, writer
Known for	Green Belt Movement
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize

Kenya is one of the most compelling African Countries in terms of feminism transformation. After gaining independence from Britain in 1963, the fight for women liberation in Kenya was pioneered by various heroic women, including the Nobel Laureate the Late Professor

Wangari Maathai

Feminism is different according to each culture; with that term comes a history & culture that is exclusively western.

===Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt movement in 1977. The movement was a leading voice for environmental conservation. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace prize for her contribution to sustainable development. She encouraged women in rural parts of Kenya and around the world to plant trees.=== FProfessor Maathai was variously frustrated in her struggles in the Kenya Parliament, but her efforts contributed strongly to found a nationwide outcry for gender equality.

In 2007, another Kenyan gender equality figure and the then Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha W. Karua presented a bill on constitution amendment to allow women representation in parliament, proposing 50 women’s seats (nominated) to give the country’s women representation in the parliament. The struggle for women representation and equality continued until the year 2010, when the country promulgated a new constitution (Axtell, 2011). The winning part for the feminist movement was in Article 27, section 8, which states that all state organizations shall not have more than 2 thirds members of one gender. In addition, Article 81 requires that elective bodies show the same representation as Article 27 (Adawo et al., 2011).

Women in Kenya have more rights now than they did before the new constitution was passed. However, there is still gender discrimination, gender issues and different obstacles that some Kenyan women face such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), poverty, women’s’ right to their opinion and independence from the punitive traditional women’s role as stipulated in most customary settings. The majority of these issues are now already receiving widespread cross-gender support, and the Kenyan feminism effort is really one of the frontline efforts towards gender equality.

=== Professor Phoebe Asiyo presented the Affirmative Action motion in 1977 but the men dominating parliament voted against it (Adawo et al., 2011). rom that simple idea sprouted a powerful movement that challenged what she saw as the incompetent, corrupt and often brutal rule of many male-dominated regimes in post-colonial Africa. ===She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace prize award).

Micere Githae Mugo

Mugo was a political activist who fought against human rights abuses in Kenya.[6] Her political activism led to her being harassed by the police and arrested.[6] Mugo and her family (including two young daughters) were forced to depart Kenya in 1982 after an the attempted coup of the Daniel Arap Moi government after which she became a target of official government harassment.[7] She was stripped of her Kenyan citizenship but was given Zimbabwean citizenship. She has worked, written, and taught from abroad since she left Kenya.[4

Micere Githae Mugo (born Madeleine Mugo in 1942) is a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya.[1] She is a literary critic and professor of literature in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University.

Martha Karua

Karua was born in Kirinyaga District, Central Province of Kenya; she is the second born in a family of eight siblings, four girls and four boys. She studied law at the University of Nairobi from 1977 to 1980. Between 1980 and 1981 she was enrolled at the Kenya School of Law for the statutory post graduate law course that is a prerequisite to admission to the Kenyan roll of advocates and licensing to practice law in Kenya. She then joined the public service, and worked as a magistrate from 1981 to 1987. From 1987 to 2002 she worked in private practice as an advocate.

She immensely contributed to the development of family law and especially the distribution of matrimonial property as well as constitutional and administrative law.[2]