Africa's peacemakers : Nobel Peace Laureates of African descent / edited by Adekeye Adebajo.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Zed Books,
2014.
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| Physical Description: | 330 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.