Path from freedom fighter to Hero

A role model for millions of people around the World

Mandela in one of interview said that in his trial in 1964 it was opportunity to use apartheid platform to tell the entire world his ideas. He said that in court:

"Fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation and fewer and few rights," he said from the dock

"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Our struggle has reached a decisive moment," he said. "We have waited too long for our freedom. We can no longer wait."

During his long subsequent confinement, more than 27 years of which were spent on Robben Island, a wind-scorched Alcatraz off the Cape coast little was heard of Mr. Mandela and nothing was seen of him. When he emerged from captivity on February 11th 1990, no contemporary photograph of him had been published since 1964; the world had been able only to wonder what he looked like.

The statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square in London. The only Black man statue in Square

Over the next two years, Mandela proved himself a formidable negotiator as he pushed South Africa toward its first multiracial elections amid tension and violence. He and de Klerk were honored with the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.

When the elections were held in April 1994, the ex-prisoner became the next president and embarked on a mission of racial reconciliation, government rebuilding and economic rehabilitation. He was by then 71 years old, and barely ten years of semi-active politics remained to him. Nonetheless, more than any other single being, he helped during that decade to secure a conciliatory and mostly peaceful end to apartheid, one of the great abominations of the age, and an infinitely more hopeful start to a democratic South Africa than even the most quixotic could have imagined 20 years earlier.

Mr Mandela only did not show African leaders but also entire world that a Black man and African can be a good leader, a good politician, for those people who believe that black man or Africans have lack of leadership then Mr Mandela proved them wrong. For those people who look at black people or Africans down because of the colour of their skin or because the situation Africa is nowdays. There is a person who proved them wrong Nelson Mandela, the man all black people and Africans should look as their role model.

Nelson Mandela gave a good lesson for current and future Africans leaders, and entire world to learn how to forgive others, violence only bring more violence the best way to resolve our conflicts and difference is through dialogues and comprise. Therefore, future African leaders should learn how to comprise because of peace but the currents African leaders didn't learn Mr Mandela's lesson so far.