Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples
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Michela WrongMichela Wrong has worked for the Reuters news agency, the BBC and the Financial Times, and is now a columnist for the New Statesman. She is the author of In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Harper Collins, 2002) and I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (Harper Collins, 2004). Recent articlesThe G8 summit: good for Africans? African and western writers evaluate the deals done at the 2005 G8 summit. |
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