Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace laureates of African descent / edited by Adekeye Adebajo, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2014Description: 330 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781780329420
- 1780329423
- 9781780329437
- 1780329431
- Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- Obama's Nobel ancestors
- Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin. 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, 1922-2016. Anwar Sadat
- Pacifists -- Biography
- Nobel Prizes -- History
- Peace -- Awards -- History
- Nobel Prize winners -- Africa -- Biography
- Nobel Prize winners
- Nobel Prizes
- Pacifists
- Peace -- Awards
- Afrikaner
- Nobelpreisträger
- Friedenssicherung
- Africa
- Peace
- Pacifism
- Nobel Prize
- History
- Biographies, memoirs and correspondance
- Africa
- 303.6/6079 23
- JZ5540 .A37 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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