Africa's peacemakers: Nobel Peace laureates of African descent
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cape Town Centre for Conflict Resolution [2014]
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description: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
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (330 pages)
ISBN:1306289467
1780329423
178032944X
9781306289467
9781780329420
9781780329444

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