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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
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