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Altre Modernità, 2014 In 1994, in his first speech to the parliament of South Africa, Nelson Mandela quoted the Afrikaner poet Ingrid Jonker and read The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga.
Maria Paola Guarducci
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Political myth and historical reality in Nelson Mandela’s Long road to freedom
Contree, 2021 P Bonner, “The headman, the regent and the ‘Long walk to freedom’”, Journal of Southern African Studies (2019); DS Yekela, “Unity and division: Aspects of the History of the AbaThembu chieftainship, c.1920 to c.1980” (PhD), University of Cape Town, 2011);
Jeff Peires
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From sick old man to mythical hero
Communicare, 2022 In his autobiography, Conversations with Myself, Mandela spoke about his concern that the world had a false image of him as a saint and semi-god (Mandela, 2012).
Sandra Pitcher +2 more
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The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela By Rita Barnard (ed)
Acta Academica, 2015 From text: That Nelson Mandela has become an overdetermined signifier is axiomatic. Many scholars sensitive to the risks that inhere wherever this occurs have already pointed to the dangers posed by a diluted, provincial, and glossed-over framing of ...
Marthinus Conradie
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The search for a more human face for Nelson Mandela: An urgent task
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 For many reasons, reflecting on the life of Nelson Mandela is a precarious exercise. If Mandela is a symbol of the resilience of the human spirit under trying conditions, he is also a symbol that is appropriated in various ways – helpful and unhelpful –
Tinyiko Maluleke
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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of a spoken Arabic corpus on the death of Nelson Mandela. The corpus mainly consists of the coverage of some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in the aftermath of the announcement ...
Tawffeek A. S. Mohammed +2 more
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Returning Images: Mandela, Marikana and the Rugged Road to the Future
Altre Modernità, 2014 It is only appropriate to begin with his face. The intense, rainbow-colored Mandela portrait that opens this issue is the work of a young Indonesian digital artist, Ihsanulhakim, who captures a serious, reflective and aged version of the South African ...
Annalisa Oboe
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‘Magic Negro’, Saint or Comrade: Representations of Nelson Mandela in Film
Altre Modernità, 2014 “In the late 1980s, Nelson Mandela stood alone against the apartheid state.” This comment taken from the DVD Box set cover of Nelson Mandela: From Freedom to History summarises the approach taken by many of the cinematic and televisual representations of
Roger Bromley
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Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 This article intends to analyse the main linguistic characteristics of one of Mandela’ speeches: the address to the nation at the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of the Republic of South Africa, Union Building, Pretoria, 10 May 1994.
MarÃa MartÃnez Lirola
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