Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran after 15 years in exile ...
February 11th holds a significant place in the annals of history, marked by transformative events across various domains, ...
Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. "In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I ...
Idris Elba details how he spent a night in a South African prison to ready for Nelson Mandela role - The actor was the lead in the 2013 biopic about Nelson Mandela’s 27 years in prison ...
In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...
Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela ... 27 years in prison before serving as the first Black president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Mandela died in 2013 at the ...