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In 2000, our editors wrote: “Will Nelson Mandela ever stop astounding and humbling the world by the force of his moral vision and the transformative authority of his personal courage and conviction?” The question was in response to Mandela's efforts to end Brundi's civil war, but it expresses what has been said in so many of the tributes in the week since his death, in wonder over how much he was able to accomplish. Commonweal over the years chronicled Mandela's fight against apartheid, his imprisonment, and his release and subsequent election as president of South Africa. But we'd like to single out this brief item our editors composed after Mandela's 1990 U.S. tour. Read it here [1].

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Ellen B. Koneck is the Acquisitions, Sales, & Marketing Manager at Anselm Academic in Minneapolis, MN. She previously worked at Commonweal and taught at Sacred Heart University. You can follow her on Twitter [4].

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[1] http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sites/default/files/imce/31746/Nelson%20Mandela_0.pdf [2] https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/foreign-affairs [3] https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/war-and-peace [4] https://twitter.com/ellen_koneck [5] mailto:[email protected] [6] http://www.facebook.com/commonwealmagazine [7] http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/nelson-mandela [8] https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/nelson-mandela [9] https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/print/35369