Opinion
No more cut-and-paste biographies of the man at the heart of our history
‘Tribal’ biographies are often examples of colonial anthropology parading as history — and make the case for a life of Mandela by an African scholar
16 February 2020 - 00:00
In July 2005 I invited Henry Louis Gates Jnr, Cornel West and Wole Soyinka to deliver a series of lectures on the “meaning of Mandela”.
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