- Black Nobel Prize laureates
Black Nobel Prize laureates account for 11 of the total number of prizes.
tatistics
List of Black Laureates
Nobel Prize in Literature
*1986
Wole Soyinka became the first Black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
*1992Derek Walcott became the first West-Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
*1993Toni Morrison became the first Black Woman to with the Nobel PrizeNobel Peace Prize
*1950
Ralph Bunche became the first Black to win the Nobel Prize
*1960Albert John Luthuli became the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*1964Martin Luther King, Jr became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*1984Desmond Tutu became the second South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*1993Nelson Mandela became the third South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
*2001Kofi Annan became the first Ghanaian to win the Nobel Prize
*2004Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Prize in Economics
*1979
Sir William Arthur Lewis became the first Black to win a Nobel Prize other than Peaceee Also
*
List of African-American firsts
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.