Nelson Mandela spoke at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy on Oct. 26, 1999. Click on the image above to view the Baker Institute’s video tribute of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died Dec. 5, 2013.
Nelson Mandela video tribute from Rice University’s Baker Institute
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I was privileged to have supper with Nelson Mandela in the early 1990s when I was a graduate student at the University of Cape Town. He was gracious and charismatic and exuded joy for life. Madiba was a great man who led in order to serve.