Award surprises Nigerian author
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Chimamanda Adichie says she did not expect to win the Orange Prize for Fiction, despite being favourite.
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OSLO -- The first African woman and the first Kenyan to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award yesterday to the beat of drums and dancers that broke with the usual stodgy ceremony.
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Unable to conceal his excitement, President Mwai Kibaki declared Prof Wangari Maathaiâs Nobel Peace Prize an honour that had thrown the country into a celebratory mood.
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Until this morning, not many non-Germans knew that a woman called Elfriede Jelinek existed. This state of unknowing underwent a dramatic change with an oracular announcement: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to travel to Sweden for a presentation last month.
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Nigeria&#39;s outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Liberia and Sierra Leone Saturday to receive top honours for his country&#39;s role in helping quell civil wars in the two west African states.
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British author Doris Lessing has collected the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London.
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World-famous author Chinua Achebe rejects a national award, criticising the "dangerous" state of affairs in Nigeria.
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Kenya's Wangari Maathai wins this year Nobel Peace Prize, the first African woman to do so.
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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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Nigerian Chimamanda Adichie says she did not expect to win the Orange Prize for Fiction, despite being favourite.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Judges hail 'astonishing' story of Biafra conflictÂ· Writer's second novel voted top title by readers
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize in any category since the awards were first handed out in 1901...
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Mozambique's former president Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize Monday for achievement in African leadership
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.
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Mali and Sevilla striker Fredi Kanoute is named 2007 African Footballer of the Year by the Confederation of African Football.
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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.