Format:
Online-Ressource (338 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781780329437
Content:
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
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Front cover; About the Editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1 Obama's Nobel Ancestors: From Bunche to Barack and Beyond; Outline of the Book; Connections and Contrasts; Three African Americans; Four South African Priests and Politicians; Three Peacemakers from Egypt and Ghana; Three Women Activists from Kenya and Liberia; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; 2 Barack Obama: Between Racial Compatriots and Nobel Ancestors; In the Shadow of Gandhi; The Hidden Agenda behind Obama's Nobel Prize; Obama's African-American Ancestors; Obama's Global Compatriots
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From Colour Line to Culture LineConcluding Reflections: Between Nostradamus and Mister Obama; Bibliography; 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; The Situational Peace Activist; Reflections on Peace in Our Time; The Quest for Peace and Justice; Constraints of the Presidency Revisited; Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; 4 Ralph Bunche: The Scholar-Diplomat; A Life in War and Peace; Bunche's Commitment to the International Civil Service
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Bunche's Contributions to UN PeacekeepingThe Congo Crisis; Bunche and the United States Government; After the Congo; Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; 5 Martin Luther King Jr: The Great Provocateur; The Prophet of the Civil Rights Struggle; The Ideology of Non-Violence; Containing Black Rage; Concluding Reflections; References; PART THREE: THE FOUR SOUTH AFRICANS; 6 Albert Luthuli: The Black Moses; Before the Nobel Peace Prize; Luthuli's Political and Religious Beliefs; The Award of the Nobel Peace Prize; After the Nobel Peace Prize; Luthuli's Relations with Other Nobel Peace Laureates
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Concluding ReflectionsBibliography; 7 Desmond Tutu: The Wounded Healer; The Troublesome Priest; Domestic Drama; Tutu and Luthuli: The Double Act; Restorative Justice and Healing; Off-Stage: One-on-One; F.W. de Klerk: White Impunity; Concluding Reflections: No Curtain Call; Bibliography; 8 Nelson Mandela: The Oratory of the Black Pimpernel; The Struggle against Apartheid; The March to Freedom; The Nobel Speech; Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; 9 Frederik Willem de Klerk: The Pragmatic Peacemaker; Liberalising the Political Situation and Creating an Environment for Negotiations
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Negotiating the End of ApartheidFrom CO DESA II to the Nobel Peace Prize; The Post-Apartheid Era; Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; PART FOUR: THE TWO EGYPTIANS; 10 Anwar Sadat: The Tragic Peacemaker; The Road to Jerusalem; The Nobel Peace Prize and Its Aftermath; Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; 11 Mohamed ElBaradei: The Rocket Man; Why Was ElBaradei Awarded the Nobel Prize?; ElBaradei's Contributions before the Nobel Prize; The Nobel Speech; After the Nobel Prize; Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; PART FIVE: THE KENYAN AND THE GHANAIAN; 12 Wangari Maathai: The Earth Mother
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The Evolution of an Environmental Activist
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780329444
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780329437
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Africa's Peacemakers : Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent
Language:
English
Keywords:
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