2013

Nelson Mandela forged me

On freedom, love, forgiveness, tenacity; what it means to be a human person

Sometime in the late nineties, a university professor friend of mine who had moved to South Africa met up with me on a visit home, brandishing Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. He was visibly excited as he described the experience of reading it, using words that would make you think he was describing a John le Carré thriller.