Race and Resistance Seminar

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Adekeye Adebajo’s edited Africa’s Peacemakers: Nobel Peace Laureates of African Descent will be discussed with responses from Adekeye Adebajo (Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town), Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) and Kaye Whiteman (former editor, West Africa)

Book Description:

As Africa and its diaspora commemorate 50 years of post-independence Pan-Africanism, this unique volume examines critical lessons of peacemaking, socio-economic justice, women’s rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament from the 13 prominent individuals of African descent who have won the Nobel Peace Prize since 1950. The book assesses the first American president of African descent, Barack Obama, whose career was inspired by the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles promoted by fellow Nobel Peace laureates Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Albert Luthuli. Key lessons for peacemaking are drawn from figures such as Ralph Bunche, Anwar Sadat, Kofi Annan, and F.W. De Klerk; as well as lessons for women’s rights, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Wangari Maathai, and Mohamed El-Baradei.

 

Race and Resistance across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century

Audience: Open to all