July marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Luthuli, head of the ANC from 1951 to 1967. Sadly, it did not get the attention it deserved.
Luthuli was the first African Nobel peace laureate in 1960. The award was an attempt to highlight apartheid brutalities. He titled his autobiography Let My People Go, borrowed from an American civil rights-era spiritual: "Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land; tell old Pharaoh let my people go!"