Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa.

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa. He was given the name Nelson by a school teacher. He was sometimes called ...

Mandela was secretly appointed its commander in chief. "At the end of the day...violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela, 1959 "Monitoring Mandela (Four Police ...

The first known television interview with South Africa’s late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has emerged — and it was filmed in a former synagogue. The Nelson Mandela Foundation ...

It was among the first encounters in what would become a lifelong relationship between Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s tiny Jewish community, impacting the statesman’s life at several ...

Whole crowds can also collectively remember things incorrectly – this phenomenon goes by the name of the Mandela effect. It is named after the fact that many people thought that Nelson Mandela had ...