Africas Peacemakers Nobel Peace Laureates Of African Descent Adebajo by Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- Editor instant download after payment.

1 online resource (25 entries), 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, Includes bibliographical references, About the Editor -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Obama's Nobel Ancestors: From Bunche to Barack and Beyond / Adekeye Adebajo -- 2 Barack Obama: Between Racial Compatriots and Nobel Ancestors / Ali A. Mazrui -- PART TWO: THE THREE AFRICAN AMERICANS -- 3 Ralph Bunche, Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama: Three African-American Nobel Laureates Debate War and Peace / Pearl T. Robinson -- 4 Ralph Bunche: The Scholar-Diplomat / James O.C. Jonah -- 5 Martin Luther King Jr: The Great Provocateur / Lee A. Daniels -- PART THREE: THE FOUR SOUTH AFRICANS -- 6 Albert Luthuli: The Black Moses / Chris Saunders -- 7 Desmond Tutu: The Wounded Healer / Maureen Isaacson -- 8 Nelson Mandela: The Oratory of the Black Pimpernel / Elleke Boehmer -- 9 Frederik Willem de Klerk: The Pragmatic Peacemaker / Gregory F. Houston, PART FOUR: THE TWO EGYPTIANS -- 10 Anwar Sadat: The Tragic Peacemaker / Boutros Boutros-Ghali -- 11 Mohamed ElBaradei: The Rocket Man / Morad Abou-Sabé -- PART FIVE: THE KENYAN AND THE GHANAIAN -- 12 Wangari Maathai: The Earth Mother / Janice Golding -- 13 Kofi Annan: The Soft-Spoken Prophet / Gwendolyn Mikell -- PART SIX: THE TWO LIBERIANS -- 14 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: The Iron Lady / Adekeye Adebajo -- 15 Leymah Gbowee: The Prayerful Peace Warrior / Rosaline Daniel -- About the Contributors, Title page of print version