Although Camus was the first African born winner he did not win the award as an African. He was considered French. The first African born, African winner was Wole Soyinka who was an African writer from Nigeria who won the Nobel Prize in 1986, and was the first African who ever won the award. He wrote an autobiography called, "The Man Died" in 1972.
Scholar and diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.
Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
Theodore Roosevelt became the 1st American awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906. He had assisted in mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his mediation in Palestine.
Who Are the 8 African and African-American Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize?Ralph Bunche, 1950Albert John Lutul, 1960Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964Desmond Mpilo Tutu, shared with F.W. de Klerk, 1984Nelson Mandela, 1993Kofi Annan, shared with the UN, 2001Wangari Muta Maatha, 2004Barack Obama, 2009Read more at Suite101: Obama Third US Black Nobel Peace Prize Winner: At-a-Glance Facts: Nobel Peace Award and African-Americans, Africanshttp://www.suite101.com/content/obama-second-us-black-nobel-peace-prize-winner-a157232#ixzz1AvdR6Wmr
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Ralph J. Bunche was the first African-American person to win the nobel peace prize in 1950. (Martin Luther King, Jr. became the second African-American Peace Prize winner in 1964. ) In addition, the first female nobel peace pize winner was Bertha Sophie von Suttner, from Austria. She won the award in 1905.
The first Nobel Prize winner from Turkey was Aziz Sancar, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his studies on DNA repair.
Toni Morrison in 1993
Dr. Ralph Bunche from USA won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950