Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how innovation is better in Africa. Former President Barak Obama has returned to Africa for the first time since ...

Obama, who met with Mandela in 2005 and who made an emotional address at his funeral, will speak at the lecture marking 100 years since the anti-apartheid icon was born. "President Barack Obama -- we ...

This week, former president Barack Obama delivered the 16th annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in a Johannesburg stadium brimming with dignitaries, kings, celebrities and everyday citizens from South ...

Chilean-American author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman said on Saturday that former enemies in both post-apartheid South Africa and in Chile after dictatorship must show remorse for past ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday likened restrictions the Taliban has placed on women in Afghanistan to the treatment of Black people under apartheid in a ...

The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture is one of the Foundation’s flagship programmes to honour its founder, Nelson Mandela, and to raise topical issues affecting South Africa, Africa and the rest of the ...