Desmond Tutu
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu was born in 1931 and is a South African cleric and activist who won worldwide fame in the 1980’s as an opponent to apartheid. He called for boycotts of his own country in response to the racism in Africa.
Tutu was the first black South African to be elected to be the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town in South Africa. Tutu was also the primate of the Church of Province of South Africa. In 1984 Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He also was the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism. On top of all this he also got the Magubela Prize for liberty in 1986.