Albert Luthuli

Inkosi Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli or Albert Luthuli (1898 – 1967) was a Zulu chief, teacher, religious leader, and president of the African National Congress ANC from 1952 to 1960) in South Africa. He greatly influenced young members who were to be future leaders like Mandela and Tambo. And Gandhi’s methods of nonviolent resistance greatly influenced him. In 1960, the same year the ANC was banned by the apartheid government, Luthuli became the first African to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of his nonviolent struggle against racial discrimination.