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Meet these amazing thinkers who will help you to understand TOK, challenge your assumptions and about the world, and provide you with ideas to support exhibition commentary discussions.

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Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist, who has spent much of her life exploring politics, social justice, and the impact of globalization. Check out her TED talk, called, The era of the question mark

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Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician and Nobel laureate, who championed nonviolent political resistance and human rights - although in later years has become a controversial figure due to her use of force against the Rohingya people. She delivered a TED talk called, Freedom from Fear

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Cornel West is a philosopher and activist. His work explores the political implications of race, justice, and democracy. His TED Talk is entitled, The Moral and Spiritual Bankruptcy of Our Society

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bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins), was an American author and feminist who focused on analyzing the role of politics in addressing race, class, and gender issues.

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Amartya Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher, who studies the intersection of politics, economics, and human development. His TED talk is called, Can We Build "The Idea of Justice"?

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Angela Davis is an American political activist and scholar. She advocates for racial and gender justice, linking politics with social movements. See her TED Talk on Policing the Black Man

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Hannah Arendt was a German-American political theorist who explored political action, power, and totalitarianism's impact on society.

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Rousseau was a writer and philosopher whose thoughts on politics are amongst the most influential that have ever been developed. His idea that there should be a social contract between government and governed outlined in the publication of the same title helped to inspire the American (and later, French) revolution.

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Iqbal was born in modern day Pakistan, and combined the arts with politics. Known as the ‘Poet of the East’, he was one of the figures who inspired the Pakistan movement, helping to lead to the establishment of the state in 1947.

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Gandhi was a lawyer by training, but soon emerged as the key leader of Indian independence from British colonial rule and oppression. His central idea was non-violent civil disobedience, which he advocated alongside religious tolerance and pluralism.

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Adichie (b. 1977) is an award-winning writer and public speaker from Nigeria. She is one of our knowledge heroes, appearing in the BQ lessons to help us to explore how ‘single stories’ can feed into our confirmation bias to hinder us from understanding the world.

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Achebe was a Nigerian poet, novelist and academic, who was outspoken on colonialism and racism. He was a supporter of Biafran independence, but ultimately lost faith in politics due to the way in which he felt that power had corrupted those originally seeking freedom.

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Obama is an American politician and attorney, who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is one of our knowledge heroes, and appears in the BQ lessons to help us explore the role of empathy in helping us to arrive at moral conclusions.