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Welcome to Displore and thanks for watching, In this video we shall be presenting the 12 Africa’s Nobel Peace prize Winners. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by a Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, The winner is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on behalf of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's estate, and awarded to whoever to whosoever have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Since the inception of the award I 1901, About 25 Africans have won the awards but in the category for peace which is our bone of contention, only 11 Africans have won. The first person from Africa to win a Nobel Prize was Max Theiler, a South African man who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951. Six years later, the famed absurdist philosopher and author Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Camus was French, and so many people assume he was born in France, but he was in fact born, raised, and educated in French Algeria.
Both Theiler and Camus had emigrated out of Africa at the time of their awards, however, making Albert Lutuli the first person to be awarded a Nobel Prize for work completed in Africa. At the time, Lutuli (who was born in Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe) was the President of the African National Congress in South Africa
and was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role leading the non-violent campaign against apartheid.
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So in Here are the Top 12 African Nobel Prize winners for peace
12. Abiy Ahmed Ali, Ethiopia, 2019
Abiy Ahmed Ali is an Ethiopian politician serving as the fourth[1] prime minister[2] of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia since 2 April 2018. In 2019 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. The prize is also meant to recognise all the stakeholders working for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia and in the East and Northeast African regions. When Abiy Ahmed became Prime Minister in April 2018, he made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks with Eritrea. In close cooperation with Isaias Afwerki, the President of Eritrea, Abiy Ahmed quickly worked out the principles of a peace agreement to end the long “no peace, no war” stalemate between the two countries. These principles are set out in the declarations that Prime Minister Abiy and President Afwerki signed in Asmara and Jeddah last July and September.
11. Denis Mukwege, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018
Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped by armed rebels. In 2018 he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. Mukwege have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes. Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending these victims. Mukwege in his way has helped to give greater visibility to war-time sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions. Denis Mukwege is the foremost, most unifying symbol, both nationally and internationally, of the struggle to end sexual violence in war and armed conflicts. His basic principle is that “justice is everyone’s business”. Men and women, officers and soldiers, and local, national and international authorities alike all have a shared responsibility for reporting, and combating, this type of war crime. |