Black Nobel Prize Laureates

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Ralph Bunche

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Albert Luthuli

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Martin Luther King Jr

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Anwar el-Sadat

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Sir William Arthur Lewis

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Desmond Tutu

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Wole Soyinka

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Derek Walcott

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Toni Morrison

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Nelson Mandela

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Kofi Annan

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Wangari Maathai

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Barack Obama

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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