Philip Obaji is the only African nominated for the Stuttgart Peace Prize

Wed, May 31, 2023
By editor
2 MIN READ

Media

NIGERIA’s Philip Obaji is a nominee for the Stuttgart Peace Prize, an award previously won by former CIA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

The 37-year-old Daily Beast correspondent, who nabbed his first Stuttgart Peace Prize nomination, also earned a special distinction as the only African in a list of 16 individuals and organizations to be nominated for the 2023 edition of the prestigious award.

Obaji said following the Stuttgart Peace Prize nomination news: “This is not an award Africans are used to being nominated or even winning and so to be considered for it is a huge honor.”

Only one African – Kenyan lawyer Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan – has ever won the prestigious award since its inception in 2003.

The Stuttgart Peace Prize is an annual award of 5,000 Euros made by the German non governmental organization Die AnStifter to people or projects involved “in a special way for peace, justice and world solidarity”. The prize will be awarded to a winner at a peace gala in Stuttgart, Germany, on December 10.

Full list of nominees for the Stuttgart Peace Prize

1. Amaro Foro eV, Germany-based transcultural youth association 

2. Natalie Amiri, German-Iranian journalist

3. German Doctors, German global medical outreach 

4. Kickers Fan project, German football initiative 

5. Samuel J. Fleiner, German conceptual artist and composer

6. Parastou Forouhar, Iranian artist and author  

7. Shahin Gavanji and Jahangir Gavanji, Iranian human rights activists and researchers  

8. Initiative against the death penalty e. V, based in Taunusstein, Germany 

9. Philip Obaji Jr., Nigerian journalist and human rights campaigner

10. Ali R., human rights campaigner in Europe

11. Die Seebrücke, Germany-based civil society movement 

12. Start with a Friend e.V., German non profit social association

13. Stelp eV, civil aid organization based in Stuttgart, Germany

14. Harald Thomé, German social justice campaigner

15. Thomas  and  Ulrike  Vogt, German peace activists

16. Wahat al-Salam /Neve Shalom, Israeli cooperative village

A.

Tags:


South Sudan editor Emmanuel Monychol Akop detained without charge by intelligence agents

THE Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, calls on South Sudan’s authorities to reveal  the whereabouts of Emmanuel Monychol Akop, editor-in-chief of...

Read More
IPI Nigeria mourns treasurer Rafatu Salami

THE International Press Institute, Nigeria, has sadly announced the sudden death of its treasurer and erudite journalist, Hajiya Rafatu Salami....

Read More
Realnews Magazine staffers win prizes at end of year celebration

By Christabel Ejenike THE Publisher of Realnews magazine, Maureen Chigbo, at its end of the year celebration has urged the...

Read More