Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the imagination of a new South Africa
The historical event is based on the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela in the Robben Island. The article demonstrates that prison experience from 1962 to the early 1990s contributed significantly to the debate on belonging in South Africa. More specifically, the text focusses on the imagination of belonging by Mandela. In addition, the source depicts the vision of a new South Africa and how the nation would look like if the oppression of Native South Africans stopped. The context of the article in history also focusses on the issues of race, as well as what and who makes a nation.
