# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-lutuli
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:56:13.394Z

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name: "Albert Lutuli"
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description: "The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize stood firm on nonviolence even as the movement he led turned to armed struggle. Albert Luthuli held that line through banning orders, the Sharpeville massacre, and the slow erosion of his own authority within the ANC."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1898 at a mission in Bulawayo, Luthuli moved to Groutville in 1908 and became a teacher, eventually joining Adams College as one of its first African instructors. Elected chief of the Umvoti River Reserve in 1935, he witnessed the grinding injustices of segregation firsthand. He joined the ANC in 1944, rose to provincial president in Natal by 1951, and led the 1952 Defiance Campaign against pass laws — a stand that cost him his chieftaincy when he refused to choose between the ANC and his traditional role. Elected President-General that same year, he built multi-racial alliances that fractured the movement's Africanist wing and led to the founding of the Pan-Africanist Congress. After Sharpeville, as younger leaders like Mandela pushed for armed resistance, Luthuli's commitment to Gandhi-inspired nonviolence held but his influence waned. He won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize in 1961. He died in 1967.