Zambian opposition politician and candidate for president for the Patriotic Front party in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

Maina Kiai is the former Chairperson of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR).

Managing Editor, allAfrica.com

President of Gabon.

International advocate for women and child rights; former education minister, Mozambique

Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme, former South African Ambassador to the United States.

Nigerian writer and winner of the Nobel for Literature in 1986.

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Former president of South Africa; Nobel peace laureate (with Nelson Mandela) for 1993

South African novelist.