All 3 Uses
Nelson Mandela
in
The Other Wes Moore
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- It was also the tribe of Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, and many other heroes of the African National Congress.†
p. 166.4 *
- I also learned about ubuntu—the Xhosa word for humanity—and the power of authentic leadership as exhibited by giants like Nelson Mandela and a thousand other self-sacrificing visionaries who had managed the unforeseen transition from apartheid to democracy without a bloodbath.†
p. 167.6
- I stood in the cell that held Nelson Mandela for eighteen years on Robben Island, and I searched for family in a small Cuban town outside Havana.†
p. 177.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(Nelson Mandela) South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (1918-2013)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)