Africa: What Mandela and Fanon Learned From Algeria's Revolution in the 1950s

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On the fifth anniversary of South African statesman Nelson Mandela's death, it's worthwhile to remember how his thinking moved from violence to reconciliation as the solution to undoing apartheid.

On his journey to a different approach, Mandela visited Algeria - a place where the revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon also developed his ideas on armed struggle.

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