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.

Table of Contents

• 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