Bio
The Most Reverend Dr. Desmond Tutu is a South African activist and Christian cleric who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
He was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Archbishop Tutu has been active in the defence of human rights. He has campaigned to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and racism.
Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.
Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.
In 2010 he filmed the nine-part travel documentary television series The South African Story with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in which he travelled to seminal locations across South Africa's nine provinces. The series aired on SABC3 in 2011.