Here is a list of all the Nobel Peace Prize winners from sub-Saharan Africa, and the reasons cited by the Nobel Committee for their selections:

2011 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, Liberia, “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.”

2004 – Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenya, “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.”

2001 – The United Nations and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Ghana, “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.”

1993 – Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa, “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.”

1984 – Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa, “to direct attention to the non-violent struggle for liberation to which Desmond Tutu belongs, a struggle in which black and white South Africans unite to bring their country out of conflict and crisis.”

1960 – Albert John Lutuli, South Africa, for leading “ten million black Africans in their nonviolent campaign for civil rights.”