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| "Madiba," by Kadir Nelson. |
The world has lost a great leader and a great man. I have nothing of my own to add to the many eloquent tributes being made all around the world, but three that you might want to consider are these:
1. Rachel Maddow gave an excellent summary of Mandela's life and career, followed by an interview with American civil rights leader John Lewis. Her videos are no longer embeddable since MSNBC moved the show to a new website, but you can find it over on Towleroad.
2. Archibishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who also struggled against the apartheid regime in South Africa, remembers his friend Mandela in this essay.
3. South African novelist Nadine Gordimer's memoir of her fellow countryman in the New Yorker.
Unfortunately for South Africa, as this Time article makes clear, greatness is not heritable.
