Barack Obama to deliver Nelson Mandela lecture in South Africa in July
Former US President Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela memorial lecture at a 4,000-capacity arena in Johannesburg in July, South African organisers announced on Monday.
Mr Obama, who met with Mr Mandela in 2005 and who made an emotional address at his funeral, will speak at the lecture marking 100 years since the anti-apartheid icon was born.
āPresident Barack Obama ā we will be looking forward to hosting him as he will be addressing this esteemed Nelson Mandela annual lecture,ā Sello Hatang, head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said.
A better man
Mr Hatang said the foundation had been seeking someone with āan Africa heritageā to deliver an address that will ādeal with issues of democracyā facing the world today.
The New York Times said that Mr Obama would spend five days in Johannesburg holding meetings, workshops and training for 200 young people in his most significant international project as an ex-president.
In his funeral address, Mr Obama said Mr Mandela āmakes me want to be a better manā and hailed him as āthe last great liberator of the 20th centuryā.
Source: Today NG
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