Nelson Mandela was one of the most important leaders of 20th and 21st centuries - find out about his story here.

He founded modern South Africa. Visitors to the stunning nation at the tip of the continent can retrace many of Nelson Mandela’s most significant moments.

First officially recognized by the United Nations in 2009, International Nelson Mandela Day encourages people to commemorate ...

Nelson Mandela's life was one with multiple implications. His life conditions changed, and he altered as a human being at various phases of his life. He spoke of undergoing a series of journeys. Part ...

Mandela was a "very human person" with a sense of humor who took interest in people around him, said F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president.

The South Africa of Nelson Mandela’s birth was a different nation from the one he leaves behind. Jeffrey Brown gets perspective on Mandela’s influence from three South Africans: Penelope ...

South African President Nelson Mandela, born on July 18, 1918, spent nearly three decades in prison during his struggle against apartheid, before he was released on Feb. 11, 1990. On Dec. 5, 2013, … ...

Nelson Mandela, the prisoner-turned-president who reconciled South Africa after the end of apartheid, died on December 5, 2013. He was 95.

By the time Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, the path to ending South Africa's political crisis through the abolition of apartheid was known, even if it would not be easy or straight.

He founded modern South Africa. Visitors to the stunning nation at the tip of the continent can retrace many of Nelson Mandela’s most significant moments.