Nigerian war epic wins Orange prize
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Arts & entertainment: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's domestic epic of the Biafra war, Half of a Yellow Sun, has won this year's Orange Broadband prize for fiction.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize  Friday for aiding the continent's poor with a campaign to plant  millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Nigeria's Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of modern African writing, was awarded the 60,000 pound Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday.
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The Mo Ibrahim Prize - worth $5m - will be awarded in London to a former African head of state.
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"Chinua Achebe's early work made him the father of modern African literature as an integral part of world literature"  Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first novel, 'Things Fall Apart' (1958), and 'Anthills of the Savannah,' published more than 30 years later. He has written more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry. Read more
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Kenya&#39;s environmentalist Wangari Maathai has won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
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An American reporter&#39;s account of the  surreal world inside Baghdad&#39;s top security Green Zone was  named on Monday as winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, billed  as the world&#39;s richest award for non-fiction.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for fighting poverty by trying to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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Arts & entertainment: 'Father of modern African literature' beats formidable shortlist to Â£60,000 prize.
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Sierra Leone opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won the West African country's presidential election, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Monday.
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[World News]: Oslo, Oct 8 : Kenya&#39;s environmentalist Wangari Maathai has won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize &quot;for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace,&quot; the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday.
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The African Union can quickly mobilize up to 5,000 troops to help end the looting and killing in western Sudan, but it needs hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the force and so far it's received just &#36;20 million, says Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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A distinctly African setting framed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to the first woman from that continent to receive the prestigious honor.
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Hollywood actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle received an award from Nobel peace prize laureates on Thursday for their campaign to help the people of Sudan's Darfur region after 4-1/2 years of war.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize accepted her award on Friday. She urged her audience &quot;to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.