Mandela embodied the type of leader that Africans had in mind when they struggled for freedom from the European empires. Africans wanted leaders who would reconcile and reunite them – leaders who would restore to them the dignity that colonialism had robbed.
曼德拉正是那些为摆脱欧洲帝国统治而抗争的非洲人心目中的领袖。他们希望有一个能促成各族和解并将所有人重新联合在一起的领袖——一个能重新让他们找回被殖民主义夺去的自尊的人。