by Emmanuel Osanedum and Mark Amaza
From those who would preserve the myth because it comforts the world to those who insist he was all too human, these 20 assessments of the man called Mandela, curated by Emmanuel Osanedum and Mark Amaza will give wholesome insight as to his legacy
Lynne Duke passed on in April, before the man whose obituary she co-wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/nelson-mandela-ex-president-of-south-africa-dies-at-95/2013/12/05/33558832-5df7-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
They saw Mandela’s face for the last time: http://www.haaretz.com/news/nelson-mandela-1918-2013/.premium-1.563020
Including a revelation Mandela embargoed until after his death, the first draft of Bill Keller’s obituary for the New York Times was written eight years ago, and it comes in, finally, at 6500 words: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/world/africa/nelson-mandela_obit.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&smid=tw-share
This, for The Indispensable: http://world.time.com/2013/12/05/the-indispensable-man-nelson-mandela-1918-2013/
Premium Times mourns a peculiarly African loss: http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion/151001-editorial-nelson-mandela-1918-2013-an-enduring-lesson-for-african-leaders.html
The economic verdict on Mandela is mixed, according to the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/12/nelson-mandelas-mixed-legacy.html
Not exactly a tribute, but a peek, perhaps, into where Mandela stood on sanctions: http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/opinion-nelson-mandela-a-true-believer-in-sanctions-1.6604606
When is making money off the Mandela name a bit too much?: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-branding-of-nelson-mandela/2013/12/12/e33307c0-62a2-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html
On the CIA and the capture of Nelson Mandela: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the
The story of Mandela and Winnie is the – epic – story of the great love of one’s life, lost: http://mobile.news.com.au/world/the-madness-of-nelson-and-winnie-how-mandelas-greatest-love-broke-his-heart/story-fndir2ev-1226777540512
This personal essay mourns “the statesman and the revolutionary and the terrorist and the neoliberal and the ethicist and the pragmatist and the saint and don’t you dare try to discard or remove any part of that whole. Celebrate him? Sure, but then make sure you’re willing to consider emulating him”: https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2013/12/06/be-nelson-mandela/
Nadine Gordimer speaks affectionately of her countryman: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/12/mandela-my-countryman.html
JM Coetzee emerges with a lament “that Madiba “may well be the last of the great men”: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/nelson-mandela-held-his-turbulent-country-together-during-dangerous-years-20131206-2yus8.html#ixzz2n9FUC5jw
But this letter says no to those who want to avoid his complexity; the intensity of his anger: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/mandela_was_no_care_bear048084.php
First the peacemaker, then the fighter http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/africa/after-tributes-to-mandela-the-peacemaker-recalling-mandela-the-fighter.html
Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, finds words insufficient: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/mandela-in-verse-myself-i-stood-in-the-storm.html
So, Teju Cole takes a single Mandela photo, and shares a stunning tale: http://thenewinquiry.tumblr.com/post/69179658566/the-island
The Huffington Post gets some of the brightest and best photo tributes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-tributes_n_4398119.html
YNaija shares the moment he was released from prison, and 9 other remarkable videos: http://www.ynaija.com/the-moment-he-was-released-from-prison-9-other-remarkable-nelson-mandela-videos-watch/
And Maya Angelou wraps it up beautifully with this poem: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/07/video-maya-angelous-moving-tribute-poem-to-mandela/
– See the full Y! Special tribute to Mandela on ynaija.com/mandela
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