List of African Nobel Prize Winners

Who are Africans who have been Nobel Prize Winners over the years? Here is an interesting infographic on African Nobel Prize Winners. Inspiring!

Name

Country

Year

Prize

Camus, Albert	Algeria	1957	Literature
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude	Algeria	1997	Physics
Al-Sadat, Mohamed Anwar	Egypt	1978	Peace
Mahfouz, Naguib	Egypt	1988	Literature
Zewail, Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	1999	Chemistry
El Baradei, Mohamed	Egypt	2005	Peace
Annan, Kofi	Ghana	2001	Peace
Maathai, Wangari	Kenya	2004	Peace
Soyinka, Wole	Nigeria	1986	Literature
Theiler, Max	South Africa	1951	Medicine
Luthuli, Albert John	South Africa	1960	Peace
Cormack, Alan McLeod	South Africa	1979	Medicine
Klug, Aaron	South Africa	1982	Chemistry
Tutu, Desmond Mpilu	South Africa	1984	Peace
Gordimer, Nadine	South Africa	1991	Literature
De Klerk, Frederik Willem	South Africa	1993	Peace
Mandela, Nelson	South Africa	1993	Peace
Brenner, Sydney	South Africa	2002	Medicine
Coetzee, John Maxwell	South Africa	2003	Literature
Lessing, Doris	Zimbabwe	2007	Literature
Johnson Sirleaf, Ellen	Liberia	2011	Peace
Gbowee, Leymah	Liberia	2011	Peace