List of black Nobel laureates
Laureates

List of black Nobel laureates

Section Title: Laureates
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Year	Image	Laureate	Country	Category	Comment

1950	-	Ralph Bunche	United States	Peace	First black person to win a Nobel Prize

1960	-	Albert John Luthuli	South Africa	Peace	First black African to win a Nobel Prize

1964	-	Martin Luther King, Jr	United States	Peace	Youngest African American to win a Nobel Prize

1979	W. Arthur Lewis	Saint Lucia	Economics	First and (so far) only black person to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; first West Indian to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

1984	-	Desmond Tutu	South Africa	Peace

1986	-	Wole Soyinka	Nigeria	Literature	First black person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

1992	-	Derek Walcott	Saint Lucia	Literature

1993	-	Toni Morrison	United States	Literature	First black woman to win a Nobel Prize

1993	-	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	Peace

2001	-	Kofi Annan	Ghana	Peace

2004	-	Wangari Maathai	Kenya	Peace	First black African woman to win a Nobel Prize and first and only environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize

2009	-	Barack Obama	United States	Peace

2011	-	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	Liberia	Peace

2011	-	Leymah Gbowee	Liberia	Peace

2018	-	Denis Mukwege	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Peace

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In 2018, Denis Mukwege received an award for Peace.

final_sentence: In 2018, Denis Mukwege received an award for Peace.