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Noble mission that made Kenyan clinch top global award

Alice Nderitu

On the day an anti-nuclear lobby was being unveiled as the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner in Oslo on Friday, a Kenyan woman was being honoured with a related global award in Ottawa, Canada.

After spending years in rusty villages in Nigeria negotiating peace between rival communities, the former National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) member Alice Nderitu was honoured with the inaugural Global Pluralism Award for promoting respect for diversity.

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