Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace laureates of African descent

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Author:

Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- editor of compilation.

ISBN:

9781780329420

9781780329437

Physical Description:

330 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction. Obama's Nobel ancestors : from Bunche to Barack and beyond / Adekeye Adebajo -- Barack Obama : between racial compatriots and Nobel ancestors / Ali A. Mazrui -- Part 2. The three African Americans. Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama : three African-American Nobel laureates debate war and peace / Pearl T. Robinson -- Ralph Bunche : the scholar-diplomat / James O.C. Jonah -- Martin Luther King Jr : the great provocateur / Lee A. Daniels -- Part 3. The four South Africans. Albert Luthuli : the Black Moses / Chris Saunders -- Desmond Tutu : the wounded healer / Maureen Isaacson -- Nelson Mandela : the oratory of the Black Pimpernel / Elleke Boehmer -- Frederik Willem de Klerk : the pragmatic peacemaker / Gregory F. Houston -- Part 4. The two Egyptians. Anwar Sadat : the tragic peacemaker / Boutros Boutros-Ghali -- Mohamed ElBaradei : the rocket man / Morad Abou-Sabé -- Part 5. The Kenyan and the Ghanaian. Wangari Maathai : the Earth Mother / Janice Golding -- Kofi Annan : the soft-spoken prophet / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Part 6. The two Liberians. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf : the iron lady / Adekeye Adebajo -- Leymah Gbowee : the prayerful peace warrior / Rosaline Daniel.

Subject Term:

Pacifists -- Biography.

Nobel Prizes -- History.

Peace -- Awards -- History.

Nobel Prize winners -- Africa -- Biography.

Added Author:

Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966-

Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- Obama's Nobel ancestors.

Mazrui, Ali AlʾAmin. Barack Obama.

Robinson, Pearl T., 1945- Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama.

Jonah, James O. C. Ralph Bunche.

Daniels, Lee A. Martin Luther King Jr.

Saunders, Chris. Albert Luthuli.

Isaacson, Maureen, 1955- Desmond Tutu.

Boehmer, Elleke, 1961- Nelson Mandela.

Houston, Gregory F. Frederik Willem de Klerk.

Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, 1922- Anwar Sadat.

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Summary

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume provides profound insight into the thirteen prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950.

From the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli; to influential figures in peacemaking such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei, who have been variously involved in women's rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.