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Graca Machel born on 17 October 1945, she is a Mozambican, the writer of “The Impacts Of War On Children.” She is the first and only woman in the world to get married to two president’s of two different countries and became the first lady of two different countries

In this article, we will share how it all happened:

In 1986, Graca Machel became widowed when her husband Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique died in a mysterious plane crash just inside the South African border. She had met Machel in 1973 when she came back to Mozambique after her education in Portugal.

Graca joined Frelimo (Liberation Front of Mozambique) that was headed by Samora Machel due to her Liberation ideas. She and Samora became lovers during the revolutionary war and got married in August 1975, almost months after Mozambique became Independent.

She became the First Lady of Mozambique, and also became the first minister of culture and Education. When her husband died in a plane crash, She resigned from her post as an education minister. For five years she mourned her late husband, which made her wear black all throughout the duration and was basically distraught. Being a woman gifted with extraordinary skills, she didn’t let her husband’s death to stop her from her child advocacy work.

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In 1991, Graca Machel launched a foundation to address poverty. In the ‘90s, she was usually seen around Nelson Mandela who would become the first black president of South Africa, after their official meeting following his release from prison in 1990. The two became friends following Mandela’s divorce with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela but it later turned into real love.

On the 18th of July 1998, Graca and Mandela got married on his 80th birthday, making her the only woman in history to be the First Lady of two different countries. She was still an economic and political force in Mozambique.

She once commented about her marriage to two different leaders: “It’s not two leaders who fell in love with me, but two real people. I feel privileged that I have shared my life with the two exceptional men.”

Nelson Mandela died in December 2013.

Despite being married to two different iconic leaders, Graca Machel said she would never want to be defined by her marriages.

” I’m not Samora’s wife, I’m me,” she said in the past.

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