I'm Celeste Headlee and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Michel Martin is away. Coming up, Pope Francis is Time magazine's person of the year for 2013. We'll talk about how the pope is changing ...

Due to contractual obligations, the University of Galway must continue to collaborate with Israel Institute of Technology, ...

In 2023 South African author Jonny Steinberg published a book on former South African president Nelson Mandela and his tumultuous marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. To mark the 107th anniversary ...

But a focus on leadership practice rather than rhetoric, symbol and myth reveals a more uneven record. Mandela was an ...

Newly elected chancellor of Nelson Mandela University Naledi Pandor called on society to “make good trouble” as she officially assumed the role during an installation ceremony on Wednesday afternoon.

South African former President Nelson Mandela is in good spirits and making progress, doctors said on Friday, after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero was taken to hospital for the third time in four ...

A new film about Nelson Mandela's public rise in South Africa also takes a close look at the personal side of his life with former wife, Winnie. Idris Elba and Naomie Harris star in Mandela: Long Walk ...

Nat Bregman, whom anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela described as his “first white friend,” died in Johannesburg. Bregman, who shared an office with Mandela for three years at a Johannesburg law ...

A new book has revealed that Nelson Mandela believed it was his wife, Winnie, who had given away his whereabouts while he was ...

Marwan Barghouti is the most senior Palestinian leader in jail – and the most popular. He is often described in local press and by supporters as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela. On Friday, he appeared ...