
Wimps Versus Barbarians
RealClearPolitics
As Professor George J. Stigler, a Nobel Prize winning economist, put it in his memoirs, "our faculty united behind the expulsion of a large number of young barbarians." The sky did not fall. There was no bloodbath. The University of Chicago was in fact ...

How Africa's First Female President Led Her Country Back from the Brink
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
That chance came and she made the most of it, being elected President of Liberia for one term, and in 2011, the same year in which she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, for a second term. This will be her last term. She will be 79 years old when ...

Calls for Chinua Achebe Nobel prize 'obscene', says Wole Soyinka
The Guardian
Calls for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel prize for literature have "gone beyond 'sickening'" and become "obscene and irreverent", Achebe's fellow Nigerian author – and 1986 Nobel laureate – Wole Soyinka has said.

Nobel Peace Prize For Nana Akuffo Addo Is Next
GhanaWeb
... that, Ghanaians are peaceful people who can solve their differences without resorting to destruction of lives through wars or riots and in lieu of this, Nana Akuffo Addo should be considered and awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for Peace as his going to ...