Black Nobel Prize laureates
- Black Nobel Prize laureates
Black Nobel Prize laureates account for 11 of the total number of prizes.
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List of Black Laureates
Nobel Prize in Literature
*1986 Wole Soyinka became the first Black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
*1992 Derek Walcott became the first West-Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
*1993 Toni Morrison became the first Black Woman to with the Nobel Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
*1950 Ralph Bunche became the first Black to win the Nobel Prize
*1960 Albert John Luthuli became the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*1964 Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*1984 Desmond Tutu became the second South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*1993 Nelson Mandela became the third South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*2001 Kofi Annan became the first Ghanaian to win the Nobel Prize
*2004 Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize in Economics
*1979 Sir William Arthur Lewis became the first Black to win a Nobel Prize other than Peace
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*List of African-American firsts
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