The bottle of Castle cost £3. By the time I forked out the money I was so homesick I would have gladly paid twice the amount. This was my first official Mandela Day - strange that it had to be at the British Museum in London, but still. Amongst a diverse selection of screenings the acclaimed film Feseka’s Voice captured some of the guts, spirit and determination so typical of Nelson Mandela and the nation he helped to build and inspire. Now there’s nothing wrong with screenings, but it wouldn’t have been Mandela Day without the magic of gumboots, the drumming, the Nzinga dancing, the San story telling, the BBQ (a sad lack of shebeens didn’t dampen our spirits) and the incessant marimba rhythms of Risenga Makondo and his band of Bush Technologists from the Gambia and Tanzania. The sensational baritone Njabula Madlala’s rendition of the late and great Miriam Makeba’s “Click Song” consolidated this as a day to not only remember, but in which to celebrate the life of a man who would become an icon for forgiveness and unification; a man who would become the father of our rainbow nation and the Madiba of the world.
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