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African Nobel Laureates
October 7, 2011.
by Dr SJ Dodgson at drsusanna.org

 In the early years of the 21st century, Liberian women reached across the church and mosque aisles and ended the bloody war and elected a woman president, and how that woman is kicking butt today. They were recognized in a film (Walt Disney's niece was one of those making it) and they are turning Liberia around, President Ellen is making everyone behave.

Two African women from Liberia won Nobel Prizes for their efforts on October 7, 2011, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee along with a Middle East Arab woman from Yemen, Tawakkul Karman.


Read the story of the restoration of peace in Liberia, a film review of "Cry the Devil Back to Hell" by Diane Ferraiolo MA, click here.


More on Leymah Gbowee, click here. More on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, click here.

Read about other African Nobel laureates click here.


The first African woman Peace Nobel Laureate was Wangari Maathi, who died on September 25, 2011. Read about her click here.
September 29, 2011
by Dr SJ Dodgson at drsusanna.org

More Nobel prizes have been awarded to scientists working to define or treat diseases killing millions of Africans annually than have been awarded to Africans living in Africa or the African Diaspora. For Medical Journal of Therapeutics Africa articles about Nobel Laureates who have been awarded their prizes for work in malaria, tuberculosis and diabetes, find page on MJoTA.org at mjota.org/nobelprizewinners.html.

Below is a picture from the African Union which was current until 2010; it does not include the 2011 Nobel laureates. Several of the Nobel Laureates are Egyptian, or are white South African. A single Nigerian is a laureate, Wole Soyinka, and a single Kenyan, Wangari Maathi.

Two ladies living in Africa have been Nobel Laureates: Wangari Maathi for Peace, and South Africa's Nadine Gardiner for Literature. Toni Morrison, Literature, is an American writer of African descent.