Word: africa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Mandela's tenure as president of South Africa has been controversial, event organizers said they don't expect protesters during his visit...
Mandela opens the first black law firm in South Africa with fellow ANC member Oliver Tambo, who later becomes national chairperson...
...Mandela is inaugurated as president of South Africa...
...grandmother explained it as "what they did to black people in the South in the 1960s, they are doing to black people over there." I was told that in order to support our African brethren, we should boycott companies that invested in South Africa and send letters to the South African Embassy demanding the end of apartheid. I heard unfamiliar words used as rallying cries and the names of F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela thrown around by politicians and activists like Randall Robinson and C. Payne Lucas of Africare...
...called Mandela a political prisoner and denounced a government in which the white minority oppressed a black majority. Yet I could never really understand my mother's anger towards the political leadership of South Africa nor her soliloquies on the importance of negritude and the relationships within the African Diaspora. Sure, I was black, but those black people in Africa were different than I was. I could not connect their experience to my own as a black pre-teen who could go anywhere and say anything that I chose. It seemed to me that black people had taken...