TY - BOOK AU - Adebajo,Adekeye AU - Adebajo,Adekeye AU - Mazrui,Ali AlʼAmin AU - Robinson,Pearl T. AU - Jonah,James O.C. AU - Daniels,Lee A. AU - Saunders,Chris AU - Isaacson,Maureen AU - Boehmer,Elleke AU - Houston,Gregory F. AU - Boutros-Ghali,Boutros TI - Africa's peacemakers: Nobel Peace laureates of African descent SN - 9781780329420 AV - JZ5540 .A37 2014 U1 - 303.6/6079 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London, New York PB - Zed Books KW - Pacifists KW - Biography KW - Nobel Prizes KW - History KW - Peace KW - Awards KW - Nobel Prize winners KW - Africa KW - fast KW - Afrikaner KW - gnd KW - Nobelpreisträger KW - Friedenssicherung KW - pplt KW - Pacifism KW - Nobel Prize KW - Biographies, memoirs and correspondance KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - 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 ER -