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Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African
cleric and activist who
rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of
apartheid. Tutu was
elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican
Archbishop of Cape Town,
South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of
Southern Africa (now the
Anglican Church of Southern Africa). He was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1984.
He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for
Humanitarianism and was
also rewarded with the Magubela prize for liberty in 1986.
Desmond Tutu is
committed to stopping global AIDS, and has served as the honorary
chairman for the
Global AIDS Alliance. In February 2007 he was awarded Gandhi
Peace Prize 2005 by
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, president of India.
He was generally credited with coining the term Rainbow
Nation as a metaphor to
describe post-apartheid South Africa after 1994 under ANC rule.
The expression has
since entered mainstream consciousness to describe South
Africa's ethnic diversity.
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