They called Mandela a terrorist
WHEN the lights suddenly go off, we mostly lean on our primordial instincts to negotiate the darkened room with memory of passage through the maze of obstacles and locate, say,…
Mandela’s vision
Nelson Mandela International Day is observed every year on July 18 across the globe. The purpose is to acknowledge the tireless efforts of the great leader for ensuring equal civic…
Mandela’s fight
When I arrived in South Africa to conclude my tour of Africa, people were celebrating Nelson Mandela International Day to mark the birthday of their beloved revolutionary leader. Mandela is…
Palestine’s Mandela
I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti. I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times. During our conversations, we discussed Israeli-Palestinian peace. Our ideas…
Obama and Mandela’s legacies
When ideas fail, said Goethe, words come in handy. As speeches go, President Obama’s tribute at Nelson Mandela’s memorial last week may easily have been one of his best. That…
Son’s death from AIDS turned Mandela to cause he neglected
When Nelson Mandela is laid to rest Sunday in his ancestral village of Qunu, he will be interred next to three of his children, one of who died of AIDS-related…
South Africa’s leadership crisis after Mandela
By the end of his mandate, South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, had succeeded in uniting a nation that not long before had been on the brink of a…
Mandela’s ancestral village lights ‘eternal flame’
Residents of Nelson Mandela's ancestral village Qunu Saturday lit an "eternal flame" at the Mandela museum on a hill overlooking the late stateman's home. More than 150 villagers sang hymns…
The genius of Mandela
Most of those paying tributes to Nelson Mandela are focusing on his qualities that they themselves hold precious and thus they present a variety of portraits. But he was a…
The violence of Mandela
In the hour after hour of coverage given by the BBC and other mainstream news channels to the late Nelson Mandela, we have seen a certain image unrolled before us.…
