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...Board of Overseers had previously invited Mandela to deliver the Commencement Day address and receive an honorary degree each year since he became president of South Africa in 1994, but he was never able to attend...
...Mandela will be joined at the 4:30 p.m.ceremony by directors of the recently formedHarvard Center of International Development(HCID)--a joint venture of the Kennedy School ofGovernment (KSG) and the Harvard Institute forInternational Development (HIID)--which alsoworked to bring him to Cambridge...
Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, director of both HIID andHCID, said Mandela's appearance at Harvard willgive him and his colleagues the opportunity tolaunch HCID's work on African economicdevelopment...
...program will center on the celebration ofthe honorary degree that Harvard will bestow onPresident Mandela, but Dr. Botchwey and I willalso each speak at the celebration, to explain thepurposes of the new center and the Africanresearch and advisory program," he added...
...Mandela, a long-time leader of the AfricanNational Congress, spent 27 years in prison forhis anti-apartheid activities. In 1994, he waselected president of South Africa...