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“No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.”

— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)

About Nelson Mandela

1918 – 2013

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and statesman who served as President of South Africa. Imprisoned for 27 years, he emerged to lead his country toward reconciliation and democracy.

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