Nobel Peace Prize and President Obama

Does he deserve an award? Yes. Does he deserve this award? Arguably. Does he deserve this award this year? No. Morgan Tsvangirai is surely more deserving. In the face of incredible provocation and violence, he acted heroically. Though sharing power with Mugabe may have been criticised by many, as Gandhi said: “There is no way to peace, peace is the way”. Tsvangirai, who this year lost his wife in what may or may not have been an accident, more obviously embodies this sentiment than does the unproven Obama.