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Sonn linked Mandela to other black role models, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1890, and Anwar Sadat.He said he wants today's scholars to follow theirexamples and convey the lessons of the past to allof humanity...
...Mandela's royal ancestry and African heritage,Sonn said, make him "the custodian of the Africanspirit and the African values, particularlybecause those things have not been written down...
When a KSG student in the audience asked Sonnif he thought Mandela's vision might die with theend of his term in office, Sonn replied thatMandela did not work alone...
...think the best thing about the speech wasthe reassur[ance] that although Mandela is a greatleader, he's only one apple from a tree that hasmany other apples and deep roots," said AndersenC. Fisher '99, using Sonn's metaphor...
...know that Mandela is an exceptionalleader. I wish he had talked a little more abouthis own experiences," said Mary Frances Mitchner,a graduate of the KSG who lived in Cape Town,South Africa, for a year...