The cursory familiarity that many people today have with Nelson Mandela’s story of moral courage and triumph has produced a near-universal secular beatification. Mandela enjoys an image akin to that of Martin Luther King Jr. The late South African has, in other words, become an easy-to-claim hero. From the perspective of the present, Mandela’s ultimate triumph can feel deceptively predestined. His political journey, like that of his country, was far more complex.
Source : Notes from Underground
