“Nelson Mandela: Character, Comrade, Leader, Prisoner, Negotiator, Statesmen” has been at Howard’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center since Oct. 31, on loan from the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 37-panel exhibit chronicles Mandela’s incredible rise from village life to his election as the country’s first Black president.
“The entire exhibit tells a brilliant story of Nelson Mandela’s incredible evolution,” says Olivia Bartley, 43, of Paris, who recently toured the exhibit with several friends. “You get the sense that he was not one-dimensional at all.”
Dr. Howard Dodson, director of Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and the Howard Libraries, says that it makes sense that the exhibit — scheduled to remain on campus until April 27 — would make its debut at Howard before traveling on a multi-city tour across the United States.
