Two Visions of Mandela
There has been no one like Nelson Mandela on the world stage in my lifetime. I was a child of five years old when he went into prison and a young man of thirty-three when he got out; during all of that time, he was the central figure of South Africa’s epic ordeal of apartheid—a man wrongfully imprisoned by a hateful racist regime, a man rendered forever young, in those prison years, by the government’s ban on pictures of him...
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