I feel extremely fortunate and honored that the start of my formal education coincided with Mandela’s re-emergence in African politics. His patience, civility, and politics of reconciliation provided me a better example of democracy and good governance than any civics class could have done.
我的求学生涯恰好与曼德拉在非洲政治的重新崛起重合，对此我感到非常荣幸。他的耐心，文雅以及和解政治都为我提供了一个民主和优秀治理和的绝佳范本，比所有公民教育都要更加生动和深刻。