Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo, born Dee Johnson, was a Nation of Islam member from Georgia. The daughter of Mama Johnson and the sister of Maggie Johnson, she left the family's Deep South home to go off to college, where she became interested in African nationalism and converted to Islam, marrying Hakeem-a-barber. In 1973, the two of them visited Mama Johnson's old home, where Wangero took photos of the old house and sought to take family heirlooms to represent African culture in her house; Mama Johnson was surprised to see her daughter change her entire identity and dismiss her old name "Dee Johnson" as the name given to her ancestors by white oppressors (despite her name coming from her aunt and grandmother).