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Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace laureates of African descent / edited by Adekeye Adebajo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pacifists--Biography.
- Pacifists.
- Nobel Prizes--History.
- Nobel Prizes.
- Peace--Awards--History.
- Peace.
- Nobel Prize winners--Africa--Biography.
- Nobel Prize winners.
- Africa--Intellectual life.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- [Enhanced Credo edition]
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As Africa and its diaspora commemorate fifty years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique and provocative collection of biographical essays provides 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, to influential figures in peacemaking, Africa's Peacemakers reveals how this remarkable collection of individuals have changed the world - for better or worse.
- Contents:
- Obama's Nobel ancestors / Adekeye Adebajo
- Barack Obama / Ali A. Mazrui
- Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama / Pearl T. Robinson
- Ralph Bunche / James O.C. Jonah
- Martin Luther King Jr. / Lee A. Daniels
- Albert Luthuli / Chris Saunders
- Desmond Tutu / Maureen Isaacson
- Nelson Mandela / Elleke Boehmer
- Frederik Willem de Klerk / Gregory F. Houston
- Anwar Sadat / Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- Mohamed ElBaradei / Morad Abou-Sabé
- Wangari Maathai / Janice Golding
- Kofi Annan / Gwendolyn Mikell
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Adekeye Adebajo
- Leymah Gbowee / Rosaline Daniel.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781350218222
- 1350218227
- 9781780329451
- 1780329458
- 9781784028473
- 1784028479
- 9781780329437
- 1780329431
- 9781780329444
- 178032944X
- OCLC:
- 891677520
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