I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Social Rights Activist and retired Anglican Bishop                          

Selected Works:

Tutu is the author of seven collections of sermons and other writings:

Crying in the Wilderness - 1982
Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches - 1983
The Words of Desmond Tutu - 1989
The Rainbow People of God: The Making of a Peaceful Revolution - 1994
Worshipping Church in Africa - 1995
The Essential Desmond Tutu - 1997
No Future without Forgiveness - 1999
An African Prayerbook, Doubleday - 2000
God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time - 2004

Tutu has also co-authored or made other contributions to numerous books:

Bounty in Bondage: Anglican Church in Southern Africa – Essays in Honour of Edward King, Dean of Cape Town, with Frank England, Torguil Paterson, and Torquil Paterson - 1989
Resistance Art in South Africa, with Sue Williamson - 1990
The Rainbow People of God, with John Allen - 1994
Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings, with Václav Havel and Aung San Suu Kyi - 1995
Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu, with Michael J. Battle - 1997
Exploring Forgiveness, with Robert D. Enright and Joanna North - 1998
Love in Chaos: Spiritual Growth and the Search for Peace in Northern Ireland, with Mary McAleese - 1999
Race and Reconciliation in South Africa - Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory, with William Vugt and G. Daan Cloete - 2000
South Africa: A Modern History, with T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders - 2000
At the Side of Torture Survivors: Treating a Terrible Assault on Human Dignity, with Bahman Nirumand, Sepp Graessner and Norbert Gurris - 2001
Place of Compassion, with Kenneth E. Luckman - 2001
Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively, with Stuart Rees - 2002
Out of Bounds - New Windmills, with Beverley Naidoo - 2003
Fly, Eagle, Fly!, with Christopher Gregorowski and Niki Daly - 2003
Sex, Love and Homophobia: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives, with Amnesty International, Vanessa Baird and Grayson Perry - 2004
Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation, with Gustavo Gutierrez and Marc H. Ellis - 2004
Radical Compassion: The Life and Times of Archbishop Ted Scott, with Hugh McCullum - 2004
Third World Health: Hostage to First World Wealth, with Theodore MacDonald - 2005
Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another and Other Lessons from the Desert Fathers, with Rowan Williams - 2005
Health, Trade and Human Rights, with Mogobe Ramose and Theodore H. MacDonald - 2006
The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa, with Marcus Samuelsson, Heidi Sacko Walters and Gediyon Kifle - 2006
The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot, by Jeffrey Archer and Frank Moloney - 2007 - Tutu narrates the audiobook version
Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes All The Difference, with Mpho Tutu - 2010
God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations, with John Allen - 2011
Tutu has also written articles for Greater Good, a magazine published by the Greater Good Science Center of the University of California, Berkeley. His contributions include the interpretation of scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism and peaceful human relationships.
A British children's author, Nick Butterworth, dedicated his book The Whisperer to Tutu.                                              

Mother Aletta
Father Zacheriah Zililo Tutu, three children.
Spouse Nomalizo Leah Shenxane, four children.                                              

First black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa , now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

Appointed Vice-director of the Theological Education Fund of the World Council of Churches, at Bromley in Kent - 1977.

Appointed Anglican Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg - 1975.

In 2006, Tutu launched a global campaign, organised by Plan, to ensure that all children are registered at birth, as an unregistered child did not officially exist and was vulnerable to traffickers and during disasters.

Co-recipient of  Presidential Medal of Freedom with Harvey Milk - 2009                                              

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