Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran after 15 years in exile ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Idris Elba details how he spent a night in a South African prison to ready for Nelson Mandela role - The actor was the lead in the 2013 biopic about Nelson Mandela’s 27 years in prison ...

The insurance magnate was a close friend of Nelson Mandela, who he housed after the statesman's divorce in 1992.

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. "In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I ...

Combs allegedly brutally whipped a female Howard University student with a belt and was sentenced to one day of anger ...

Kundalassery and Vazhakkulam are two obscure villages in interior Kerala. Forget most of us, even those from these places may not know of their surprise connection to the legendary African leader Nels ...

“In 2013, when I was preparing to play Nelson Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom, I spent the night in a prison cell on Robben Island, 12 km outside Cape Town, where Mandela was imprisoned ...

No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, but rather his wily South African analog, Jacob Zuma, whose tenure as president from 2009 to 2018 presented an existential threat to the continent’s most solid ...