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Naomi’s Billionaire Boyfriend

Posted on May 4, 2010 by | 3 Comments

Surprise, surprise, yet another pretty celebrity is proclaiming that some insanely rich guy is “the one.” 46 year old Vladislav Doronin is Naomi Campbell’s latest punching bag, dating on the sly until they were spotted together at Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday celebration. Why do men keep dating Naomi Campbell? Continue reading →

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Mandela Celebrates 20 Years fo Freedom

Posted on February 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Africa is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s freedom from prison.

20 years ago on February 20, 1990 Mandela was released from a Cape Town, South Africa prison after being a political prisoner for 27 years. Continue reading →

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Star-Studded Nelson Mandela Fav African Folktales AudioBook

Posted on July 2, 2009 by | Leave a comment

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mandelaIn honor of Nelson Mandela, Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) and Hachette Audio produced an audiobook edition of Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, an award-winning book of stories hand-picked by the Nobel laureate. Diverse, acclaimed performers donated their talents to the charitable endeavor by voicing stories: Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, Alan Rickman, Jurnee Smollett, Charlize Theron, Blair Underwood, Forest Whitaker, and Alfre Woodard. Archbishop Desmond Tutu recorded a message to the world’s children, and African music legends Johnny Clegg and Vusi Mahlasela composed original music.

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Happy Birthday, Madiba

Posted on July 18, 2008 by | Leave a comment
Though Mandela has retreated from the public stage, the 90-year-old still speaks out, as he did in condemning Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

Though Mandela has retreated from the public stage, the 90-year-old still speaks out, as he did in condemning Zimbabwe's Mugabe.

His 8 Lessons For A Sucessful Life

Nelson Mandela has always felt most at ease around children, and in some ways his greatest deprivation was that he spent 27 years without hearing a baby cry or holding a child’s hand. Last month, when I visited Mandela in Johannesburg — a frailer, foggier Mandela than the one I used to know — his first instinct was to spread his arms to my two boys. Within seconds they were hugging the friendly old man who asked them what sports they liked to play and what they’d had for breakfast. While we talked, he held my son Gabriel, whose complicated middle name is Rolihlahla, Nelson Mandela’s real first name. He told Gabriel the story of that name, how in Xhosa it translates as “pulling down the branch of a tree” but that its real meaning is “troublemaker.” Continue reading →

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