Why South Africa’s Mbeki and Mandela Centres shun the ego-trip of US-style presidential libraries

The Thabo Mbeki Presidential Centre is finally rising in Johannesburg, near the modest Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. But in South Africa, there is neither the legislation nor the wish for hagiography. More important is promoting an ‘African Renaissance’.

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The Thabo Mbeki Presidential Centre is finally rising in Johannesburg, near the modest Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. But in South Africa, there is neither the legislation nor the wish for hagiography. More important is promoting an ‘African Renaissance’.
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