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NOBLE NOBEL 6 MOST CONTROVERSIAL NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS. Since its inception, the Nobel Peace Prize has endlessly recognised individual and organisational efforts in promoting peace. These immeasurable efforts have undergone severe scrutiny and are being subjected to both approval and disapproval of concerned people. Different calibres of people have received the Noble Peace Prize ranging from peace and political activists to writers and even scientists. Although its aim is to acknowledge great strides in peace, and advancement and unity of mankind, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to some people whose lifestyle, attitude and behaviour has been questions. These are people with violent pasts or have been exposed for lying in the so-called factual work that earned them the award. Here are the top 6 African Peace Magazine's most controversial Nobel Peace Prize winners. AFRICAN PEACE MAGAZINE / 28
WANGARI MAATHAI 2004 Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She received the award for her efforts in empowering rural women in Kenya to reverse deforestation. She was a human rights advocate, politician, feminist, and an environmentalist. The one time Kenyan Deputy Minister of Environment won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 but her sweet victory was superceeded by an 'alleged' comment she made. The day before she was due to collect the peace prize in Stockholm, a story appeared in an African newspaper that claimed she had likened Aids to a "biological weapon" and told participants in an Aids workshop that the disease was "a tool" to control Africans "designed by some evil-minded scientists." Maathai confronted the storm of controversy by insisting her comments had been taken out of context. "I neither say nor believe that the virus was developed by white people or white powers in order to destroy the African people," she said in a statement released by the Nobel committee. "Such views are wicked and destructive." She was described by TIME as someone who "inspired women to stand up for themselves against a corrupt and th patriarchal government. She died on September 24 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. BARRACK OBAMA 2009 As America's first Black president, Barrack Obama was chosen for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," which raised more than a few eyebrows, considering the nomination came just 12 days after he took office. At the time he accepted the award, he said it was an award he didn't deserve, four years down the line, people seem to agree with him. Lots of people. One is Kirsten Powers who said it's time for Obama to give his Nobel Peace prize back. She cites his determination to attack Syria, with or without a UN Security Council resolution, as one reason; the escalation of a "pointless and failing" war in Afghanistan is another. But the main reason Obama should turn in his prize is his "five-year Middle East drone war" which has killed an estimated "500 to 800 innocents", writes Powers. The Nobel Committee was accused of having political motivations. For their part, the committee acknowledged the award honored Obama's "efforts" to advance global harmony rather than his concrete achievements to date. RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ 1992 RigobertaMenchú won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for I, RigobertaMenchú, her autobiographical account of her life as a Mayan and, more specifically, the genocide of the indigenous Guatemalan people in the late '70s and early '80s. Menchú's book was first published in 1982 and would eventually be translated into 12 different languages, making it one of the first cohesive accounts of the atrocities against the Mayans and garnering international interest that would lead to her Nobel Peace Prize win. But did everything in Menchú's book really happen the way she described? Thanks to the work of American anthropologist David Stoll, Menchú's book — and her Nobel Peace Prize — became the topic of great debate after he discovered that she had stretched the truth to make her story more emotionally persuasive. Menchú was not, as she had written, entirely uneducated, and she did not witness the torture and murder of her brother (although her mother did.) While Stoll supported Menchú's win regardless of these discrepancies, he also pointed out that Menchú's account was not a realistic portrayal of what actually caused the genocide to take place. AFRICAN PEACE MAGAZINE / 29
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