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In 1960, Chief Albert Lutule became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It was recognition for his campaign of nonviolent resistance to a part eight in South Africa.

I spoke to his daughter Albertina Latoulli about her father in 2010.

In years gone by, some of the great men of our century have stood here, right here, to receive this award.

It's December 1961.

Chief Albert Lutoulli, the President General of the African National Congress,

stands to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

To be plucked from banishment in a rural begwater,

to be lifted out of the narrow confines of South Africa's internal politics and placed here in the

shadow of these great figures I've referred to is indeed an all. It was the first time an African had received the Nobel Peace Prize

and for Chief Lutule it meant a chance to set out his vision for a multi-racial South Africa, but also a rare opportunity

to leave Groutville, the village where he'd been banished by South Africa's apartheid government.

My father read the telegram and we were stunned, utter, utter surprise.

For Chief Lutuley's family, the announcement of the award a few months earlier had come as a complete shock.

Dr Albertina Lutuli, the chief's daughter, remembers gathering in the sitting room.

There were so many people who had come and were around and everybody was having a question.

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