Mwangi Mathai, the former husband of the late Kenyan Cabinet Minister Prof. Wangari Maathai is dead.
Mwangi’s death was announced by his family in an obituary published in the Daily Nation on Wednesday, September 18th.
The announcement did not give details of how and when the former Langa’ta Member of Parliament passed away. The obituary neither stated any details on funeral arrangements nor family associations.
“Further details will be communicated later,” part of the obituary stated.
The deceased married Prof. Wangari in 1969 and went on to have three children before they divorced in 1979.
In 2016, Mwangi unveiled his book titled “Beyond Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya” at the University of Nairobi.
He is listed as the Managing Director of Matraco International Limited, a company that deals with soap products.
In her book “Unbowed: One Woman’s Story”, Prof. Maathai explained that her husband’s decision to end their 10-year union came as a surprise.
“I was stunned. This was real: Mwangi had made a decision to leave me,” she wrote.
She added: “Mwangi accused me of adultery, of causing his high blood pressure and of being cruel.”
During the divorce, Mwangi is reported to have claimed that Wangari was “too strong-minded for a woman” and that he was “unable to control her”. Wangari died on September 2011 aged 71.
Mwangi served as Lang’ata MP between 1974 and 1979.
What made you think you had…
What made you think you had a right to control a woman? ? Was she your puppet, car machinery etc she was a professor because she was strong minded b4 you 2 met. Go rest well