{"id":464526,"date":"2011-07-20T07:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/20\/hail-the-great-mandela\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T07:43:24","slug":"hail-the-great-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/hail-the-great-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail the Great Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"26.266440678\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/nation180.jpg\" alt=\"The Nation (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The Nation (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>19 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>editorial<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi \u2014 Former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Not many people live to be 90 &#8212; at least not in Africa, where life expectancy is, on average, 55. But Madiba marked his 93rd birthday on Monday, and reverence for him keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p>What is the secret of this man who has turned out to be the most enduring icon for Africa?<\/p>\n<p>Who can ever forget that he dedicated 67 years of his life to public service even when he languished in prison for 27 of those years?<\/p>\n<p>Only the very young may have no idea of Mandela&#8217;s contribution to the struggle to free South Africa from the evil apartheid regime, eventually ushering in multiracial democracy in a country that had for decades entrenched segregation as state policy.<\/p>\n<p>That he became South Africa&#8217;s first black president is not as significant as his decision to give up power before he became enmeshed in the African brand of messy politics and soil his reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, he dedicated his days to serving as a peace-maker in many African trouble-spots.<\/p>\n<p>Though Madiba is fully retired and physically feeble, we are yet to hear the final word from this great African, the like of who we are unlikely to see in our lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107200177.html\" title=\"Hail the Great Mandela\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hail the Great Mandela<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 19 July 2011 editorial Nairobi \u2014 Former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a phenomenon. Not many people live to be 90 &#8212; at least not in Africa, where life expectancy is, on average, 55. But Madiba marked his 93rd birthday on Monday, and reverence for him keeps growing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hail the Great Mandela - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/20\/hail-the-great-mandela\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Hail the Great Mandela - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"19 July 2011 editorial Nairobi \u2014 Former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a phenomenon. 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