Wangarĩ wa Nyatetũ-Waigwa
Kenyan college professor
Wangarĩ wa Nyatetũ-Waigwa (31 July 1950 – 4 February 2024), born Anne Elizabeth Wangarĩ Waigwa, also known as Wangarĩ Mũringĩ Waigwa-Stone, was a Kenyan literary scholar and university professor. She taught French, women's studies, and Swahili courses at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.
Early life and education
Anne Elizabeth Wangarĩ Waigwa was born into a Kikuyu family and brought up on a farm near Nyeri, Kenya, the daughter of Samuel Waigwa wa Gatamũ and Salome Nyatetũ wa Nganga. "I was raised under an African sky," she told Terry Tempest Williams. "Darkness was never something I was afraid of."
Wangarĩ attended Alliance Girls High School from January 1964 to December 1969. She studied French there, in Madagascar, and in France. She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Dijon in 1974, and a teaching certificate at the University of Grenoble. She moved to the United States for postgraduate studies in September 1980 and earned her doctoral degree at the University of Utah. Her PhD thesis was titled "The Liminal Novel: Studies in the French-African Bildungsroman of the 1950s" (1989).
Career
Returning to Kenya after her undergraduate studies, Wangarĩ wa Nyatetũ-Waigwa taught at Alliance Girls' High School (AGHS) from 1974 to 1980.
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