Albert Luthuli (Ohio Short Histories of Africa)

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In a very good addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the essential but in large part forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize winner and president of the African National Congress from 1952 to 1967. Probably the most respected African leaders, Luthuli linked South African antiapartheid politics with other movements, becoming South Africa’s leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience techniques. He also framed apartheid as a crime against humanity and thus linked South African antiapartheid struggles with international human rights campaigns.

Unlike previous studies, this book places Luthuli and the South African antiapartheid struggle in new global contexts, and aspects of Luthuli’s leadership that were not up to now publicly known: Vinson is the first to make use of new archival evidence, a large number of oral interviews, and personal memoirs to reveal that Luthuli privately supported sabotage as an additional solution to end apartheid. This multifaceted portrait might be indispensable to students of African history and politics and nonviolence movements all over the world.

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