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Happy Mandela Day!

Happy Mandela Day!

Source: UN

Today Nelson Mandela has turned 94. Mandela is staying out of the public eye, but that has not kept people from Qunu, Mandela’s home village in the Eastern Cape, to President Obama in Washington, to children around South Africa, and the world from issuing their praises of the great, but increasingly frail, leader of the African National Congress.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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