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...Wlad Godzich The Mandela Enigma Nelson Mandela has been an enigma to me. I have read his auto- biography and many of his speeches, listened to him on tape, and watched him on television, all the time wondering how someone becomes Nelson Mandela. Jean-­Paul Sartre explained how...

...Joe Cleary Mandela, Charisma, and Compromise As the cases of Ireland, Algeria, Palestine, and South Africa will suggest, settler colonies vary widely in history and circumstance, but the problems of decolonization in such formations are invariably obdurate. In Ireland, neither...

...Masturah Alatas Malaysian Mandela At secondary school in Singapore in the mid-1980s,­ we read Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country. One word I will always associate with that novel is shantytown. The teacher told the class that shantytowns “were sort of like our kampongs.” But I...

...Mohamed-Salah Omri © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela, Tunisia, and I I have experienced Mandela as a presence, an absence, and a label. During the historic first free elections in Tunisia, held on October 23, 2011, I voted early, then set off to tour the polling...

...Ruth Y. Y. Hung © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela F. W. de Klerk is the first president of South Africa whom I knew from TV and remembered. As it turns out, he became the last in the long list of white presidents of South Africa. It was late 1989; I was ten...

...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2 Parts of this article have been published in the Standard (Kenya); and the Sunday Independent (South Africa). © 2014 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2014 Mandela Memories: An African Prometheus2 I first met Mandela in 1991 in Johannesburg, at the offices...

...Anthony Bogues © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apartheid, and the Politics of Moral Force Nelson Mandela was one of the world’s most important twentieth-­ century political prisoners. At a moment when world politics was in the throes...

...Colin Dayan Nelson Mandela on Nightline; or, How Palestine Matters Mandela’s funeral was on December 15, the same day that final votes were cast for the American Studies Association resolution answering “the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott.” That resolution also “sup...

... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Erratum 223 Erratum for Anthony Bogues, “Nelson Mandela: Decolonization, Apart- heid, and the Politics of Moral Force,” boundary 2 41, no. 2 (2014): 34–36. The first full sentence on page 36...

...Dawn Lundy Martin © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela’s Wholeness, Perhaps Infinite I recall almost nothing between the years of 1986 and 1990. Or, I recall only a few things that I recall very well. My first car was a white Datsun B-210­ with an END APARTHEID sticker...

...Sobia Saleem © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Mandela’s Gift In every era, there are several men and women born who make the unthinkable thinkable, but rare and far in between are those who make the once thinkable utterly unthinkable. Nelson Mandela was one...

...Paul A. Bové Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. Tony Bogues, a member of the boundary 2 Collective, was in South Africa, watching the endless coverage of the news and of Mandela’s life. Bogues had met Mandela during his time with the Jamaican government of Michael Manley, and he has spent...

...Jim Merod Or, The Whale Nelson Mandela’s incarceration in 1964, under a life sentence threat- ening two decades of work and his personal well-being­ as a forty-­six-­year-­ old South African political activist, coincided with the escalation of Lyndon Johnson’s genocidal aggression...

...Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Mbu ya Ũrambu: Mbaara ya Cuito Cuanavale Rĩrĩa meetaga Mandela na ndundu yake imaramari Meetaga Verwoerd na Vorster na Botha arũĩri wĩyathi Rĩrĩa mendagĩria abathendi matharaita ma kũratha andũ airũ Kiumba yaheyaga arũĩri wĩyathi matharaita ma kwĩgitĩra Rĩrĩa Obama...

...Anthony Bogues Preface Very few political figures in the late twentieth century evoked hope in the way that Nelson Mandela did. In conventional representative poli- tics, figures fleetingly emerge who inspire the possibility of the new and then flicker before adjusting to the “real...

... of inter- nal civil violence. Nelson Mandela joins the rank of the genuine heroes we have inherited from unbroken confidence in national liberation. As Fer- nand Braudel has taught us, we cannot ignore the longue durée—the old perennial structures that continue to operate beneath, beyond, and above...

...? At the rebirth of the South African state, Nelson Mandela’s determination to pursue a course of peace rather than vengeance stunned the world as forcefully as the violence that maimed it had kept him imprisoned on Robben Island for over two decades. The new South Africans called apartheid terror’s...

... . Guerrilla Parties, Considered with Reference to the Laws and Usages of War . New York : D. Van Nostrand . Mandela Nelson . (1964) 1990 . “The Rivonia Trial.” In No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela . Oxford : Heinemann . Zedong Mao...

... full disenfranchisement of the Black Afri- can population alongside the consolidation of an authoritarian state. So when, in the midst of global neoliberal consolidation, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and the formal process for the ending of apartheid began, it gave many...

.... Woodfox tells us how education allowed him to survive the harsh conditions at Angola. Solitary is full of quotes from authors he read in prison—Baldwin, Fanon, Douglas, Mandela, Mao, among others. Woodfox also taught other prisoners to read, describing this as his “proudest achievement” (208); he wrote...