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Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He won the award in 1950 for his work of peacemaking efforts in Palestine.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first to receive the nobel peace prize
Ralph Bunche
The first writer from Kerala nominated for the Nobel Prize was Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai. He was a renowned Malayalam writer known for his contributions to Indian literature.
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Desmond Tutu, the first South African to win a Nobel prize, won it in 1984.
Alain Locke (1886-1954), a writer and educator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first African-American to receive the Rhodes Scholarship, in 1907.
Scholar and diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.
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Toni Morrison, was the first African American woman to win a nobel prize in literature in 1993
Nagib Mahfuz, an Egyptian author. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1988.