Nelson Mandela

Portrait of Nelson Mandela

Madiba · Father of the Nation · First President of South Africa · 1918–2013

The anti-apartheid revolutionary who spent 27 years in prison and emerged to lead his nation without bitterness.

Explore the life of Mandela — five chapters

  1. From Mvezo to Johannesburg — A chief's son, a mission school, and a runaway
  2. From Defiance to Umkhonto we Sizwe — Why he abandoned non-violence
  3. Rivonia and Robben Island — A speech from the dock and twenty-seven years
  4. Walking Out, and Keeping the Country Together — Four years when it could have collapsed
  5. Truth, Rugby and What Was Left Undone — Reconciliation, and the inequality that remained

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Teach what Mandela discovered

The End of Apartheid — ideas Mandela is tied to on the Living Knowledge Map. On Incandio you prove you understand one by teaching it to Ember, the AI pupil, in Teach the Room.

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