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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790730703321

Titolo

Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace laureates of African descent / / edited by Adekeye Adebajo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-21822-7

1-78032-945-8

1-78402-847-9

1-78032-943-1

1-78032-944-X

Edizione

[[Enhanced Credo edition]]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Disciplina

320.09226

Soggetti

Pacifists

Nobel Prizes - History

Peace - Awards - History

Nobel Prize winners - Africa

Biography: historical, political & military

Africa Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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-SabeĢ -- Wangari Maathai / Janice Golding -- Kofi Annan / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Adekeye Adebajo -- Leymah Gbowee / Rosaline Daniel.

Sommario/riassunto

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.