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For those of my generation (I was barely in school when Mandela was released from prison) who may have historical yearnings to have experienced the US anti-Apartheid movement of the 1980s first-hand, attendance at yesterday’s 95th birthday celebration of Nelson Mandela may be the closest that one will ever come to rekindling that atmosphere. However, I don’t think that one would have found the South African Ambassador scurrying around with a bunch of bananas in Continue reading
Africa in DC 