Mandela in/and Poetry
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. This unorthodox choice was in fact politically fine-tuned and had an emotional impact both on the new-born Rainbow Nation...
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Milano University Press
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
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| Online Access: | http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/4470 |