The actor Idris Elba recounts being on the red carpet for the Mandela film premiere when he found out that the anti-apartheid politician Nelson Mandela had died. Watch the full BBC Select ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa.

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of South Africa. He was given the name Nelson by a school teacher. He was sometimes called ...

How to Be Superhuman S3 E4 The first woman to summit both the North and South sides of Everest, Cathy O’Dowd has faced life-or-death scenarios, and received encouragement from Nelson Mandela ...

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 ...