“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imaginati…”

“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.”

— Nelson Mandela

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Title: Wikiquote: Nelson Mandela
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On a 1961 conference held in Ethiopia, as quoted in Rivonia Unmasked (1965) by Strydom Lautz, p. 108; also in ‪Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Nelson Mandela : An Ecological Study‬ (2002), by J. C. Buthelezi, p. 172

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Mandela, Nelson. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Nelson Mandela. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

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