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...searching out their own paths to progress. What's new is how much of the still limited prosperity and security they have managed to acquire is homegrown--political and economic advances rooted in the soil of local culture. What's new is that the enduring example of Nelson Mandela has heartened all Africans with a fresh vision of leadership, how men of their own kind can be admired, respected, even emulated...
...harder to acquire but are no less essential: Good governance, caring for the welfare of the people, not the potentates. New leaders, pragmatic and progressive, honest and efficient in their exercise of power. Eritrea's President Issaias is but one of them, along with South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Botswana's Quett Ketumile Masire. National reconciliation where necessary, national cohesion everywhere, the sublimation of narrow loyalties to a larger good...
...Clinton?s prior three days in South Africa proved a little more tricky than the White House might have anticipated. Despite a sound relationship with Africa?s economically strongest nation and an emotional celebration of Nelson Mandela?s achievement, the visit produced moments of discord: Not only did Mandela make a spirited defense of his relationships with the likes of Cuba, Libya and Iran, the South African president also publicly criticized President Clinton?s African trade bill for its ?trade-not-aid? formulation, and for seeking to set political limits on trade by African countries. But his two days...
...state dinner tonight, Mandela will present Clinton with South Africa?s highest honor, the Order of Good Hope. Of course the joke may be on Clinton, since Mandela awarded the same medal to that man Ghaddafi...
...Clinton may have spent most of the week uttering mea culpas up and down Africa, but Mandela was anything but apologetic: ?We should not abandon those who helped us in the darkest hour of the history of this country,? he said, referring to alliances criticized by Washington. If the U.S. aspired to world leadership, it should set an example by making peace with its enemies, Mandela added. The tone of today?s events -- which included a visit to Robben Island, the prison where Mandela served much of his 27-year sentence -- was mostly positive, with the two leaders showering praise...