“Mandela is out of jail and Sam Nujoma is in office.”
This was what a smiling Jesse Jackson said to journalists as he landed in Namibia in February 1990, just a few days before the country’s independence.
The American civil rights leader and former anti-apartheid advocate died at age 84 on Tuesday.
Jackson was a prominent figure in the United States civil rights movement, often paralleling the struggle for liberation in Africa.
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