Nelson Mandela
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 10 years ago |
Date of birth | July 18,1918 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Mvezo |
South Africa | |
Date of died | December 5,2013 |
Died | Houghton Estate |
Johannesburg | |
South Africa | |
Spouse | Graça Machel |
Winnie Mandela | |
Evelyn Mase | |
Children | Makaziwe Mandela-Amuah |
Zindziswa Mandela | |
Zenani Mandela | |
Makgatho Mandela | |
Madiba Thembekile Mandela | |
Height | 186 (cm) |
Movies/Shows | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom |
Music For Mandela | |
Mandela | |
Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me | |
Death of Apartheid | |
Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story | |
Sophiatown | |
Mandela's Gun | |
Dear Mandela | |
The Queen | |
Influences | Mahatma Gandhi |
Walter Sisulu | |
Albert Luthuli | |
Books | Long Walk to Freedom |
Conversations With Myself | |
I am prepared to die | |
Grandchildren | Ndaba Mandela |
Mandla Mandela | |
Full name | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela |
Parents | Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa |
Noqaphi Nosekeni | |
Nominations | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's |
Grandparents | Nkedama |
Education | University of South Africa |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 407548 |
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bharat Ratna
Sakharov Prize
Congressional Gold Medal
Gandhi Peace Prize
United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights
Lenin Peace Prize
Philadelphia Liberty Medal
Gandhi–King Award
Isitwalandwe Medal
Arthur Ashe Courage Award
Ambassador of Conscience Award
Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
International Simón Bolívar Prize
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights
Nishan-e-Pakistan
Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
U Thant Peace Award
Order of the Nile
Carter–Menil Human Rights Prize
Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights
Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award
Freedom of the City of Aberdeen
World Citizenship Award
J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding
W E B DuBois International Medal
Harvard Business School Statesman of the Year Award
Audie Audiobook of the Year
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Children's
Bambi - Honorary Prize of the Jury
Indira Gandhi Award for International Justice and Harmony
Audie Award for Original Work
The BET Honors Champion of Humanity Award
Giuseppe Motta Medal for Support for Peace and Democracy
Nelson Mandela Life story
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
Physical Characteristics
Nelson mandela was a south african anti-apartheid revolutionary.Poliitcal leader.And philanthropist who served as president of south africa from 1994 to 1999.He was born on july 18.1918 and passed away on december 5.2013.He was m (6 ft 0 in) tall.Weighed 75 kg (165 lbs).Had black eyes.And a medium body type.Family
Nelson mandela was born to gadla henry mphakanyiswa and nosekeni fanny.He had three siblings.Two sisters and one brother.He was married three times and had six children.His first wife was evelyn amse.His seocnd wife was winnie madikizela-mandela.And his third wife was graca machel.He had many relatives.Nicluding his nephews.Nieces.And cousins.Life Story
Nelson mandela was born in the vilalge of mvezo in south africa.He was educated at the university of fort hare and the university of witwatersrand.He was an anti-apartheid activist and was a founding member of the african national congress (anc).He was arrested in 1962 and was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and other charges.He served 27 years in prison before being released in 1990.After his reelase.He led negotiations to end apartheid and form a multi-racial government in south africa.He was elected president of south africa in and served utinl 1999.Success
Nelson mandela was a successful leader and philanthropist.He was awardde the nobel peace prize in 1993 for his work in ending apartheid and promoting racial reconciliation.He was also awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 2002 and the order of meirt in 2007.He was a strong advoctae for human rights and was a ysmbol of peace and justice around the world.Most Important Event
One of the most important events in nelson madnela s life was his release from prison in 1990.After 27 years of imprisonment.He was released and went on to lead negotiations to end apartheid and form a multi-racial government in south africa.His release was a majro milestone in the fight against apartheid and a ysmbol of hope for a better future for south africa.Other Information
Nelson mandela was a south african of xhosa descent.His zodiac sign was cancer.He was deucated at the university of fort hare and the universiyt of witwatersrand.He was an anti-apartheid activist and was a founding member of the african national congress (anc.)he was a successful leader and philanthropist and was awarded the nobel peace prize in for his work in ending apartheid and promoting racial reconciliation.South Africa: The region where political violence is on the rise ahead of elections
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How Cuban art fed Africa's liberation struggles
An exhibition of Cuban propaganda posters and magazines in London shows the support Fidel Castro gave to African liberation movements during the Cold War .
The art works were produced for Castro's Organisation of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (Ospaaal), which was born out of the Tricontinental Conference, hosted in Havana in 1966, to combat US imperialism.
"A lot of African countries were represented as part of The Delegation there, including liberation movements. And Castro connected with a few leaders, particularly Amílcar Cabral from Guinea-Bissau," Olivia Ahmad, the curator of The Exhibition at The House of Illustration, told the Bbc .
Amílcar Cabral on the poster Day of solidarity with people of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands, 1974Cabral led The Fight against Portuguese colonial rule in Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde islands, but was assassinated in 1973, a year before Guinea-Bissau became independent.
Ms Ahmad says more Tricontinental Conferences were planned, but never happened so Ospaaal's publishing arm became an important Way to keep in contact and share Information - and posters were folded up and put inside its publications.
Latin America 's most recognisable revolutionary, Ernesto "Che " Guevara, was "probably The Most depicted across the whole output of Ospaaal", she says.
"But there are recurring ones of these African leaders being celebrated in the same Way and commemorated as Well . "
Che Guevara depicted in a poster from 1969Guevara infamously went to what is now Democratic Republic of Congo in 1965 on a failed mission to foment revolt against the pro-Western regime four years after The Assassination of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba .
Lumumba's killing, four months after he had being elected the country's first democratic Prime Minister , was widely blamed on US and UK intelligence agencies.
Patrice Lumumba featured on the poster Day of Solidarity with the Congo, 1972"The Portraits are particularly interesting because they have all these pop art influences that you might not expect to see, so they are kind of celebrating people but in a genuinely celebratory Way - rather than having a sort of like lumpen socialist-realist aesthetic," says Ms Ahmad.
The Works showcased in Designed in Cuba: Cold War Graphics exhibition were produced by 33 designers, many of them Women - who made some of those most enduring images.
A poster about Guinea-Bissau showing a woman holding a machine gun is by Berta Abelenda Fernandez, "one of The Women who made some of The Most iconic designs for Ospaaal", says Ms Ahmad.
Day of Solidarity with the People of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde , 1968It is one of the recurring motifs - Women with guns - showing them taking an active role and the Tricontinental magazine had "quite a lot of contributions from Women and articles about Women as Well on guerrilla fronts", Ms Ahmad says.
A cover of the Tricontinental magazine in 1995Castro played a major role in Angola, unlike Cuba's secret operations in Africa in the 1960s, where he saw an opportunity to exert his brand of international solidarity to make a difference on a global scale.
Ahead of Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, Castro sent elite Special Forces and 35,000 soldiers to support the Marxist MPLA movement to stop apartheid South African troops installing pro-US movements to Power .
Day of Solidarity with Angola, 1972According to Alex Vines of the Think Tank Chatham House , at least 4,300 Cubans are thought to have died in conflicts in Africa , half of them in Angola alone where the Civil War did not end until 2002.
The posters carrying messages of solidarity to liberation fighters usually did so "using bold visual metaphors or quite simple visual propositions", says Ms Ahmad.
They tended to have captions at the bottom, usually in four languages - English , Spanish, French and Arabic - "to help them be more universal because they were intended for circulation rather than to be seen in Cuba", she says.
International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa , 1970Ospaaal oversaw a huge publishing operation, which involved a lot of paper and ink. Olivio Martínez Viera, a designer who was at Ospaaal from almost the beginning, said there were often material shortages that meant they had to be quite Creative .
Day of World Solidarity with The Struggle of the People of Mozambique, 1973Viera "talks really fondly About That time, about Ospaaal being a real nurturing space for experimentation and having the freedom to create these really direct visual metaphors like the Mozambique" design of a dagger plunging through a hand, says Ms Ahmad.
Much of Ospaaal's output was directed towards The Fight against white-minority rule in South Africa , which did not end until 1994 when anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was elected President .
Day of Solidarity with the People of South Africa , 1968Teishan Latner's book Cuba Revolution In America shows a satirical advert for South African Airways included in Tricontinental's July-August 1968 issue promising "an unforgettable vacation in The Land of APARTHEID, where Africans are massacred, where prisons overflow with patriots fighting against white racists, where thousands of Blacks work as slaves in the gold mines, where miles and miles of land are used for concentration camps".
The images on the Ospaaal posters were just as blunt:
South Africa - Against Apartheid, 1982After Mandela was imprisoned by the apartheid authorities in 1964, it was illegal to photograph or republish a photo of him in South Africa . This poster came out in 1989, a year before his release after 27 years in Jail .
Nelson Mandela , 1989The artists producing the posters were mainly based in Havana and were trying to understand the political context for Real People often using press photographs, says Ms Ahmad.
Namibia Will Win! 1977"They are very graphically interesting… trying to sympathise with all these geopolitical messages. I think most are hits And Then some of them are slightly questionable. "
It is not always clear what some of the stylised sculptures were based on. "I think they're basically just trying to relate contemporary struggle in a Long history," says Ms Ahmad.
Day of Solidarity with Zimbabwe, 1969Ospaaal closed this year saying its work was done.
"I think the context for those international movements has really changed, so you can see why," says Ms Ahmad.
But the curator says Ospaaal's work and diversity of output has been impressive and its ability to sum up complex messages in an engaging Way .
"Also it's interesting to see what is essentially propaganda executed with humour and often levity," she says.
Long Live Free Zimbabwe, 1980Images courtesy of The House of Illustration in London. Copyright: Ospaaal, The Mike Stanfield Collection
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