Africa's Peacemakers
Africa's Peacemakers
Editor/Author
Adebajo, Adekeye
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Zed Books
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-78-032943-7
Category: History - World history
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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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