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A better question you should have asked is why is it that the only Nobel prize blacks ever win are either for PEACE OR LITERATURE

engineerd:

A better question you should have asked is why is it that the only Nobel prize blacks ever win are either for PEACE OR LITERATURE

lol that's a good one.

engineerd:

A better question you should have asked is why is it that the only Nobel prize blacks ever win are either for PEACE OR LITERATURE

How many Black people are in Science, besides very few smart dudes like yours truly.

Do you expect them to just grab someone from one of the glorified High schools littering the landscape of Africa and give him/her the prize? There is some thought that go into these stuffs you know. They dont just wake up and give it to the nearest random White man roaming the street of Norway.

Indians, Chinese et al have all gotten the prize in hardcore stuffs.


And to your obviously air-head cheerleader, I just SMFH for her.

YoAdek333:

Our politicians and some ministry workers should win Nobel Prize for corruption   

Then may be one of our past president/head of state should be qualified for their ""contribution"" to the country.

Very corrupt people.

engineerd:

A better question you should have asked is why is it that the only Nobel prize blacks ever win are either for PEACE OR LITERATURE

mmh not really.read this biography and you will realize that peace laureate is only but a title. There's more in that prize.


Wangari was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral studies in and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also taught veterinary anatomy. She became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to attain those positions in the region. Wangari Maathai was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya in 1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87. It was while she served in the National Council of Women that she introduced the idea of planting trees with the people in 1976 and continued to develop it into a broad-based, grassroots organization whose main focus is the planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the environment and improve their quality of life. However, through the Green Belt Movement she has assisted women in planting more than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds.

In 1986, the Movement established a Pan African Green Belt Network and has exposed over 40 individuals from other African countries to the approach. Some of these individuals have established similar tree planting initiatives in their own countries or they use some of the Green Belt Movement methods to improve their efforts. So far some countries have successfully launched such initiatives in Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, etc). In September 1998, she launched a campaign of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition. She has embarked on new challenges, playing a leading global role as a co-chair of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign, which seeks cancellation of the unpayable backlog debts of the poor countries in Africa by the year 2000. Her campaign against land grabbing and rapacious allocation of forests land has caught the limelight in the recent past.

Wangari Maathai is internationally recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. She has addressed the UN on several occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly for the five-year review of the earth summit. She served on the commission for Global Governance and Commission on the Future. She and the Green Belt Movement have received numerous awards, most notably The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Others include The Sophie Prize (2004), The Petra Kelly Prize for Environment (2004), The Conservation Scientist Award (2004), J. Sterling Morton Award (2004), WANGO Environment Award (2003), Outstanding Vision and Commitment Award (2002), Excellence Award from the Kenyan Community Abroad (2001), Golden Ark Award (1994), Juliet Hollister Award (2001), Jane Adams Leadership Award (1993), Edinburgh Medal (1993), The Hunger Project's Africa Prize for Leadership (1991), Goldman Environmental Prize (1991), the Woman of the World (1989), Windstar Award for the Environment (1988), Better World Society Award (1986), Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Woman of the Year Award (1983). Professor Maathai was also listed on UNEP's Global 500 Hall of Fame and named one of the 100 heroines of the world. In June 1997, Wangari was elected by Earth Times as one of 100 persons in the world who have made a difference in the environmental arena. Professor Maathai has also received honorary doctoral degrees from several institutions around the world: William's College, MA, USA (1990), Hobart & William Smith Colleges (1994), University of Norway (1997) and Yale University (2004).

The Green Belt Movement and Professor Wangari Maathai are featured in several publications including The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach (by Professor Wangari Maathai, 2002), Speak Truth to Power (Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, 2000), Women Pioneers for the Environment (Mary Joy Breton, 1998), Hopes Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (s Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, 2002), Una Sola Terra: Donna I Medi Ambient Despres de Rio (Brice Lalonde et al., 1998), Land Ist Leben (Bedrohte Volker, 1993).

Professor Maathai serves on the boards of several organizations including the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament, The Jane Goodall Institute, Women and Environment Development Organization (WEDO), World Learning for International Development, Green Cross International, Environment Liaison Center International, the WorldWIDE Network of Women in Environmental Work and National Council of Women of Kenya.

In December 2002, Professor Maathai was elected to parliament with an overwhelming 98% of the vote. She was subsequently appointed by the president, as Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife in Kenya's ninth parliament.

Those qualifications are way above what many people can achieve in their lifetime.

I hate cancer. It makes big people bow out early before their time.

arsenefc:


How many Black people are in Science, besides very few smart dudes like yours truly.

Do you expect them to just grab someone from one the glorified High schools littering the landscape of Africa and give him/her the prize? There is some thought that go into these stuffs you know. They dont just wake up and give it to the nearest random White men roaming about on the street of Norway.

Indians, Chinese et al have all gotten the prize in hardcore stuffs.


And to your obviously air-head cheerleader, I just SMFH for her.

There are still not that many Chinese and Indian NL. You are prolly mixing up the Japanese scientist who win the prize and referring to them as chinese. The NL is dominated by oyibo especially jewish people.

@ sentient, Alfred Nobel was a freemason, but is that supposd to be a problem? Educate me on that. . .i understand u want 2 bring in the freemansory stuff to the prize, that idea i'd hardly buy.

Why didnt they give Yar-adua nobel prize for bringing peace to niger delta abi which peace Mandela brought to south africa? no be naija sef spearhead the death of apartheid? dey just det chance us.

They should have given it to Madam Patience.

Bokon haram i gues!

Beaf:
Nigerians don't get the Nobel prize because we foolishly tear each other down. A Nigerians worst enemy is another Nigerian; you can also add the other Nigerians ethnic group and their religion. Nigerian society has been phucked by years of neglect and most are so frustrated that they will instinctively strike and drag down their helpers the same way a drowning person would.

Nigerian society is too phucked to produce a Nobel Laureate, and if it did by some miracle, the same society will "kill them before they grow."

"Every time I plant the seed, he seh, kill dem before they grow!" - Bob Marley (I shot the Sheriff)

Thank you - Nigerians can be ridiculously nationalistic (when it suits them) for no good reason.

Who ever heard of Shirin Ebadi, Kim Dae-Jung, Leymah Gbowee or Tawakkul Karman before they won the peace prize?  What is anyone doing in Africa that is more deserving that what these people have done?

That's a no brainer.

we have not won because there is no category for 419.

SEFAGO:

There are still not that many Chinese and Indian NL. You are prolly mixing up the Japanese scientist who win the prize and referring to them as chinese. The NL is dominated by oyibo especially jewish people.

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/10/list_of_chinese_nobe.html

http://india.mapsofindia.com/india-forum/indian-nobel-laureates.html

I am not sure of your definition of " not that many," but I do know that enough people of Chinese, and Indian, descent have won it to remove the toga of all prejudice, religious, racial, or political, from the Nobel organization.
 
Of course, Oyinbo people dominate because they spend more money, time, and sweat on the search for verifiable knowledge/ fundamental truth.

pendo89:

Those qualifications are way above what many people can achieve in their lifetime.

I hate cancer. It makes big people bow out early before their time.

Cancer is good for the human race. "It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

engineerd:

A better question you should have asked is why is it that the only Nobel prize blacks ever win are either for PEACE OR LITERATURE

All other categories are subjects of great research (good and quality education). Anybody can get the peace prize, so is literature but not anybody can do a life-changing research in Physiology or Chemistry. Why not ask: why are there few African universities among the first 100 unis in the world? The University of Chicago produced 22 out of the 49 prize winners in Economics as at 2005 (either as research fellows, faculty or students). If we are not investing on education, we should not be expecting too much from it.

EDUCATION IS THE ONLY KEY

Oyinbo people dominate because they spend more money, time, and sweat on the search for verifiable knowledge/ fundamental truth.

If a Nigerian gets a cure for cancer, they will get a prize.

klas:

Why didnt they give Yar-adua nobel prize for bringing peace to niger delta abi which peace Mandela brought to south africa? no be naija sef spearhead the death of apartheid? dey just det chance us.

For buying peace? Its a half-baked solution to invite anyone who claimed to be a militant, pay them a sizable amount of money and send them abroad for "training" without addressing the root cause. That means if I'm very rich I can also "bring peace" to Northern Nigeria by paying off Boko Haram and you will end up recommending me for the prize. MEND bombed Abuja last year and threatened to do so this year, does that look like lasting peace?


@OP The organization is NOBEL not NOBLE.

you why dont you ask wangari to come to nigeria, and see how the nigeria prison system work

Since I have posting the picture. do you see many ers on the internet, they are scare of what will happen to them. The people in power will have them killed. You dont know know nigeria, human life have no value. See what happen to yussuf mohammed. if i was opposing the system from the inside, they will have killed me.

You see, none of the people who got the nobel prize have ever had maggot come out of their nose from been inside the nigeria prison system from opposing the nigeria govt.    segun maiyegun. the nigeria govt tried him to a prison toilet and maggot enter his mouth and came out of his nose. you dont know what it means to oppose nigeria govt. It take been very bold to do that.

who deserve the nobel prize , people who sit in office or who do the real job. I have been told not to go to nigeria for speaking up against injustice in nigeria. can wangara do that or can those who won the nobel prize.



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kcjazz:

Nigerians and their pride, this women never started with a Nobel Prize in mind, they wanted the best for their community, and just because the world recognises them today does not mean they started yesterday.

If a Nigerian gets a cure for cancer, they will get a prize
If a Nigerian solves Boko Haram without military intervention, they will get a prize
If a Nigerian gets all the millions of kids to school, they will get a prize.

The opportunities are there, we just need folks who will look beyond tribe and do what matters

Thanks for saying this. While reading the citation of a former dean in my school, he was said to have over 20 patents and I'm eager to know some of what he patented. I couldn't help but laugh when his patents are read as thus: ABC Polythene Bag, XYZ Dustbin, KLM Nylon, and their likes. I began to wonder how Nigerians will get the prize for such "achievements".

Muhammad Yunus won the Peace Prize in 2006 for inventing the Grameen Banking System. His prize citation reads: lasting peace cannot be achieved in the world without alleviating poverty. Do/Invent something wonderful that will promote peace and you can get the peace prize; add something great/life-changing to our knowledge of science and you can get the prize in any category.

dustydee:

They should have given it to Madam Patience.

You forgot to add Dr. and it is a treasonable felony . Her prize citation will read: For alleviating the plight of widows by calling herself a widow thus promoting world peace.

We dont care for for the nobel prize my friend, nobody care, it is just because it will draw attention to the world to do something to the case of nigeria before it get worst, that why we feel concern.

Do you think this people who bomb the UN office care. why not tell them your country and say you dare them and see, if they will not do the same. I am telling you, nigeria have problem, and the govt of nigeria is not been sincere to the world . Look 99% of nigerian will not vote for david mark as senate president. And from what I see, he is one of the people blocking process on this issue, because he come from a small ethnic group, who do not know their faith if nigeria break up.

But here is it, do you because of less than 1% of his people allow war in a nation with over 150 million . the EFCC boss also come from the same state with david mark, so anytime the issue comes up because of their fear, they quietly claim corruption is nigeria problem . corruption did not lead to the bombing of the United nation office.  Jonathan Goodluck too is from a small ethnic minority .

What is the percentage of this small ethnic minority in nigeria, it is less than 30% , do you risk the life of the majority 70% for less than 30%.
The nigeria army have the capability to handle the small ethnic group. but cant handle boko haram because it is coming from a large ethnic group.


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Here is the problem, you see people like Jonathan Goodluck ,david mark who is senate president, EFCC boos waziri are from small ethnic group with less than 2% of nigeria population. They are only thinking about themself and not the majority of nigerian.  Do you risk the lifes of million for 2% of the population. that is a question we need to ask.

You see the Boko haram group is from a large ethnic group and it can only spreed.  the ijaw people who form MEND are less than 2% of Nigeria it is possible to handle them, but it not possible for the nigeria security agent to handle boko haram group because their ethnic group are millions.

the issue of minority ethnic fear that people like Jonathan Goodluck, david mark, EFCC boss waziri are concern are less important than the life of the majority of the people.  And the life of the majority should count at this moment and not minority.

Look their fear is imaginary because of the nation of Ghana. In Ghana , because one group is majority,  the ethnic majority Ashatic dont care so much because they have control of parliament. In nigeria we do not have the same, but by breaking Nigeria, and removing edo,delta and yorubas, we would have a clear majority in edo,delta and yoruba new country, which give us the same scenario as Ghana.  while the remain nigeria only boost the percentage of the ethnic minority. which is good for them too.   not only that it boost the percentage of igbos.

they dont see the maths involve.

Break up Nigeria:Ethnic hate is Nigeria No 1 problem not corruption less 5% are

Uneducated nigerian, or better word nigerian who have never lived abroad before says corruption is Nigeria number 1 problem. The answer is NO. I have lived abroad for some many years. What we call corruption is consider to be commission in the west. Commission have law backing it. The problem is , nigeria does not have labour laws which force company to share in their profit with their staff. Over here they have what is call profit sharing. And also have commission. For example if bring a business to a company, the company most pay me commission for that business. In nigeria they will call it egunje or rogers or bribe. But here is the truth. You dont expect someone to bring to your company a project worth 1 billion naira. Do you expect him to go home with nothing. Noway.
Over here law are written to allow company to pay staff commission for project or sale made.
While people who introduce project to you, which are called referral also get paid for that too. we also call it bribe in Nigeria.

There are not. we need to change the law to allow company to share in the profit with their employers.

While so call corruption have never killed a nigerian , ethnicity have lead to million of people dead.

you see people like jonathan goodluck are scared because they dont know where their ijaw people fall into if nigeria break. Let me be honest with you, there can never been anything like niger delta republic, it is only fools that talk about it.
Look even Jonathan Goodluck live in port harcourt, and he knows that port harcourt have the ikwerri and the ijaws. It is not possible to cut the ikwerri people into the niger delta , even the governor of the state is an Igboman.


Even Akwa ibom governor wife is Igbo, so which niger delta, are they talking about,
Mrs. Ekaette Unoma Godswill Akpabio was born on the 9th of June 1971 to late Godwin and Beatrice Nkemdilim Ejike both of Ozom Aguobu-¬Owa, Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State.

She attended Zik Avenue Primary School, Enugu before proceeding to City Girls Secondary School, Enugu for her West African School Certificate Examination, Ekaette Unoma Akpabio obtained a degree in Education ing from the Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State. She is a devout Catholic and very devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary.


The wife of the cross river state governor is Igbo. so which stupid niger delta are they talking about. Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke.


Uzodinma Goodhead Jr who stated the so call shout of niger delta. His name is Uzodinma, an Igbo name. which stupid niger delta. With a name like Uzodinma Goodhead Jr. do you think , you have niger delta. my brother , you be mugu,

THE ONLY POSSIBLE COUNTRY OUT OF NIGERIA, IS TO REMOVE EDO,DELTA AND YORUBAS FROM NIGERIA.

@musiwa. Unfortunatly Wangari succumbed to cancer and was buried yesterday.

This is one woman whom we hardly saw sitted in the office.No woman in Kenya has suffered the way she did under moi's regime. And its a miracle she survived.
Read below some extracts.Wish you could see a video of her bleeding from the head after her hair was pulled out by thugs as she fought off landgrabbers. She was always on the front row.No wonder she suffered so much. You know she was given a state burial and the former president did not attend.Of course he could not.

What began as a tree-planting scheme in 1977 grew, like its trees, into a pro-democracy and pro-environment movement. So effective, in fact, that during the reign of former Kenyan president, and de facto dictator, Daniel Arap Moi, Wangari Maathai was harassed, beaten, and jailed because of the political activism she inspired. Eventually democracy flourished, Moi relinquished power, and Wangari was elected to Parliament.

Maathai continued to oppose modernization that collided with her environmental beliefs; this often put her at odds with government. She itted that "You cannot fight for the environment without eventually getting into conflict with politicians.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/wangari-maathai#ixzz1aJaDtPUb

As an example, she was thrown out of her state office in 1989 when she opposed the construction of a 62 story skyscraper in Uhuru Park in Nairobi. Maathai claimed that the building, which was to house government offices and a 24 hour TV station, would cost 200 million dollars. The money, she claimed, could be better spent addressing serious poverty, hunger and education needs in the country. Her opposition succeeded in frightening off foreign investors and they withdrew their ; the skyscraper was never built. In Nairobi, Maathai also opposed the deforestation of 50 acres of land outside the city limits to be used for growing roses for export.
This drove moi mad! he wanted her eliminated and what kept her alive were the hide and seek games she played. She at one time refused to leave her house for death fearing arrest and death.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/wangari-maathai#ixzz1aJWkPfOD

In January 1992 she was arrested for her political protest activities when more than 100 police raided her Nairobi residence. Later in 1992, she was charged with spreading rumors that then-president Moi planned to turn government power over to the military in order to prevent multi-party elections. While Maathai awaited trial for the latter charge, she was refused medical treatment in jail; even though she was experiencing difficulties due to a history of heart problems and arthritis.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/wangari-maathai#ixzz1aJWyzF8p

Politics and environmental activism continued to interweave in Maathai's life even before she attempted to run for office. She helped found the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy, a group that was opposed to the leadership of then-president Daniel arap Moi. She advocated for the release of political prisoners and led a hunger strike on 1992 with the mothers of these prisoners. During one of these protests, she was beaten by police until unconscious.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/wangari-maathai#ixzz1aJXIUWhe

No woman has suffered beatings like maathai from the former regime.
May she rip.

pendo89:

mmh not really.read this biography and you will realize that peace laureate is only but a title. There's more in that prize.


Wangari was the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. Wangari Maathai obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from Mount St. Scholastica College in Atchison, Kansas (1964). She subsequently earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1966). She pursued doctoral studies in and the University of Nairobi, obtaining a Ph.D. (1971) from the University of Nairobi where she also taught veterinary anatomy. She became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and an associate professor in 1976 and 1977 respectively. In both cases, she was the first woman to attain those positions in the region. Wangari Maathai was active in the National Council of Women of Kenya in 1976-87 and was its chairman in 1981-87. It was while she served in the National Council of Women that she introduced the idea of planting trees with the people in 1976 and continued to develop it into a broad-based, grassroots organization whose main focus is the planting of trees with women groups in order to conserve the environment and improve their quality of life. However, through the Green Belt Movement she has assisted women in planting more than 20 million trees on their farms and on schools and church compounds.

In 1986, the Movement established a Pan African Green Belt Network and has exposed over 40 individuals from other African countries to the approach. Some of these individuals have established similar tree planting initiatives in their own countries or they use some of the Green Belt Movement methods to improve their efforts. So far some countries have successfully launched such initiatives in Africa (Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, etc). In September 1998, she launched a campaign of the Jubilee 2000 Coalition. She has embarked on new challenges, playing a leading global role as a co-chair of the Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign, which seeks cancellation of the unpayable backlog debts of the poor countries in Africa by the year 2000. Her campaign against land grabbing and rapacious allocation of forests land has caught the limelight in the recent past.

Wangari Maathai is internationally recognized for her persistent struggle for democracy, human rights and environmental conservation. She has addressed the UN on several occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly for the five-year review of the earth summit. She served on the commission for Global Governance and Commission on the Future. She and the Green Belt Movement have received numerous awards, most notably The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Others include The Sophie Prize (2004), The Petra Kelly Prize for Environment (2004), The Conservation Scientist Award (2004), J. Sterling Morton Award (2004), WANGO Environment Award (2003), Outstanding Vision and Commitment Award (2002), Excellence Award from the Kenyan Community Abroad (2001), Golden Ark Award (1994), Juliet Hollister Award (2001), Jane Adams Leadership Award (1993), Edinburgh Medal (1993), The Hunger Project's Africa Prize for Leadership (1991), Goldman Environmental Prize (1991), the Woman of the World (1989), Windstar Award for the Environment (1988), Better World Society Award (1986), Right Livelihood Award (1984) and the Woman of the Year Award (1983). Professor Maathai was also listed on UNEP's Global 500 Hall of Fame and named one of the 100 heroines of the world. In June 1997, Wangari was elected by Earth Times as one of 100 persons in the world who have made a difference in the environmental arena. Professor Maathai has also received honorary doctoral degrees from several institutions around the world: William's College, MA, USA (1990), Hobart & William Smith Colleges (1994), University of Norway (1997) and Yale University (2004).

The Green Belt Movement and Professor Wangari Maathai are featured in several publications including The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach (by Professor Wangari Maathai, 2002), Speak Truth to Power (Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, 2000), Women Pioneers for the Environment (Mary Joy Breton, 1998), Hopes Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (s Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, 2002), Una Sola Terra: Donna I Medi Ambient Despres de Rio (Brice Lalonde et al., 1998), Land Ist Leben (Bedrohte Volker, 1993).

Professor Maathai serves on the boards of several organizations including the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament, The Jane Goodall Institute, Women and Environment Development Organization (WEDO), World Learning for International Development, Green Cross International, Environment Liaison Center International, the WorldWIDE Network of Women in Environmental Work and National Council of Women of Kenya.

In December 2002, Professor Maathai was elected to parliament with an overwhelming 98% of the vote. She was subsequently appointed by the president, as Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife in Kenya's ninth parliament.

gud research!

thanks for posting. she is lucky she was born in kenya,
, it is better to break up nigeria to save the lifes of millions, look the kanuri or hausaéfulani are not small ethnic group. so their boko haram will cause serious damage 

^^^^

Egbon Musiwa,

Who is that hot Yoruba lady? Is that your wife? Your GF? or your mom?

She is hot though.

The problem Nigerians are not well published. How many Nigerian authors who explore the vast cultural backgrounds books are circulating all over the world? Many of our professors are too primitive. Sometimes you wonder if they were professors!

@arsenefc

^ how many of the indians are in science and the number of chinese is not even that much tbh

arsenefc:

^^^^

Egbon Musiwa,

Who is that hot Yoruba lady? Is that your wife? Your GF? or your mom?

She is hot though.

U no sabi Kudirat Abiola again ?! O ga o awon abroad Nigerians yi sef