Article: What African-Americans can learn from South Africans and vice versa. (Special Issue: Nelson Mandela and the New South Africa)

Since the 1890s, Black Americans have demonstrated an affinity for South Africans. As part of the global family of the African Diaspora, we naturally are drawn together by our shared heritage and common bonds. As South Africans rejoiced throughout the recent inaugural festivities, across the Atlantic, Blacks also celebrated with tears of joy and empathy Throughout the last century, Black Americans have extended the hands of brotherhood and sisterhood to South Africans, and have been rewarded with a friendship that only grew stronger throughout the struggle for liberation.

It was a struggle that was all too familiar to American Blacks, whose ancestors were stolen ...

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