| As one of the most important members of the | | | | and organized many marches that helped contribute |
| anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, Bishop | | | | to the fall of Apartheid. He was a strong supporter |
| Desmond Tutu trivia is an important part of the | | | | of foreign countries stopping investing money in |
| history of that country. Born in the Transvaal in 1931, | | | | South Africa until the government's policies changed, |
| Tutu was living in Johannesburg by the age of | | | | even though he know this would hit the poor black |
| twelve. He started by becoming a teacher but he | | | | population hardest, for he felt it might be the only |
| decided to change his occupation when the Bantu | | | | way to reform. It was the financial pressure that |
| Education act was passed which was going to greatly | | | | would finally start to force the government to |
| limit the educational opportunities for black South | | | | capitulate, leading eventually to the release of Nelson |
| Africans. He would then turn to the study of | | | | Mandela from prison and his eventual election. |
| theology, and a Bishop Desmond Tutu quiz lists 1960 | | | | A winner of the Nobel Peace Price, since his |
| as the year in which he was ordained into the | | | | retirement from Church Governance, Bishop |
| Anglican Church. | | | | Desmond Tutu trivia will show that in the years that |
| He would study in London for four years in the | | | | followed he helped form The Elders in 2007. This is a |
| sixties, and would return to South Africa to help to | | | | group made up of world leaders that want to use |
| try to defuse the increasingly tense political situation. | | | | their collective wisdom to help tackle some of the |
| He would become the chaplain at Fort Hare, which | | | | greatest problems facing the world. Other than Tutu, |
| was one of the only good schools left for Africans | | | | the group includes notable members such as Nelson |
| to obtain a post secondary education at. Interestingly | | | | Mandela, Kofi Annan, and Jimmy Carter. He has also |
| enough, this was one of the schools which Nelson | | | | worked to help the world focus on issues that may |
| Mandela had attended. | | | | have otherwise been overlooked, notably the human |
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| was a very strong supporter of non-violent protests | | | | years. He has also served on the UN advisory panel |
| against the actions of the South African government, | | | | that was created for the prevention of genocide. |