SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Nelson Mandela

1918 - 2013

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( man-DEL-ə, Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nelson Mandela is the 5th most popular social activist (down from 2nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular South African Social Activist.

Nelson Mandela is most famous for his role in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. He spent 27 years in prison for his activism and was released in 1990.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nelson Mandela ranks 5 out of 840. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr.. After him are Malcolm X, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Luxemburg, Jan Hus, Henry Dunant, Helen Keller, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anwar Sadat, Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 2013, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Robert Edwards, Hugo Chávez, Jorge Rafael Videla, Donald A. Glaser, Pran, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, Võ Nguyên Giáp, and Frederick Sanger.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ranks 2 out of 454. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892). After him are Elon Musk (1971), Allan MacLeod Cormack (1924), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Sarah Baartman (1788), F. W. de Klerk (1936), Desmond Tutu (1931), Miriam Makeba (1932), Shaka (1787), and Christiaan Barnard (1922).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Nelson Mandela ranks 1. After him are Steve Biko (1946), Frances Ames (1920), Evelyn Mase (1922), Ted Grant (1913), Bram Fischer (1908), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Ramdas Gandhi (1897), Denis Goldberg (1933), Albertina Sisulu (1918), Beyers Naudé (1915), and Lillian Ngoyi (1911).

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