A.G.A|Nominations

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Bantu Stephen Biko

Country Of Residence: South Africa

Year Awarded: 2021

2021 A.G.A Honour

Bantu Stephen Biko

18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977

Born in South Africa in 1946, Steve Biko co-founded the South African Students’ Organization in 1968, subsequently spearheading the nation’s Black Consciousness Movement, and co-founded the Black People’s Convention in 1972. Biko was arrested many times for his anti-apartheid work and, on September 12, 1977, died from injuries that he’d sustained while in police custody.

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Aliko Mohammed Dangote

Country Of Residence: Nigeria

Year Awarded: 2021

2021 A.G.A Honour

Aliko Mohammed Dangote

Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian businessman who also happens to be the richest man in the entire African continent. He is the owner of the ‘Dangote Group,’ the largest cement producer in Africa. Born and raised in a wealthy Muslim family in Kano, Nigeria, he completed his higher education in business studies and administration from Cairo, Egypt, and established a small trading firm in 1977.

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Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe

Country Of Residence: Nigeria

Year Awarded: 2021

2021 A.G.A Honour

Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe

16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) was considered his magnum opus and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in South-Eastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies

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Prof Wole Soyinka

Country Of Residence: Nigeria

Year Awarded: 2022

2022 A.G.A Honour

Prof Wole Soyinka

Prof Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, becoming Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature

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Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Country Of Residence: Kenya

Year Awarded: 2022

2022 A.G.A Honour

Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan writer who was considered East Africa’s leading novelist. His popular Weep Not, Child (1964) was the first major novel in English by an East African.

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Prof Ali Mazrui

Country Of Residence: Kenya

Year Awarded: 2022

2022 A.G.A Honour

Prof Ali Mazrui

Prof Ali Mazrui was a Kenyan-born American academic, professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies, and North-South relations. He passed away at the age of 81 on the 12th of October 2014

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Professor Tshilidzi Marwala

Country Of Residence: South Africa

Year Awarded: 2023

2023 A.G.A Honour

Professor Tshilidzi Marwala

Professor Tshilidzi Marwala is a South African engineer, computer scientist, and academic. Marwala obtained his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University in the United States in 1991. He then obtained a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 2000. Marwala is currently the vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Johannesburg, where he was previously the deputy vice-chancellor for Research and Internationalisation. Marwala is a fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering, the African Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Science of South Africa.

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Dr. Denis Mukwege

Country Of Residence: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Year Awarded: 2023

2023 A.G.A Honour

Dr. Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist and human rights activist who has dedicated his life to helping survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Mukwege is the founder and medical director of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, which has become known worldwide for its treatment of survivors of sexual violence. He and his team have treated thousands of women who have been raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence during the long-running conflict in the eastern part of the country.