During Mandela’s 27 years of political imprisonment (9000 days) his daily source of inspiration was a poem called “Invictus.” William Henley, the English poet wrote Invictus in 1875 from his hospital bed after his leg was amputated in his lifelong battle against tuberculosis of the bone. Invictus means “Invincible” in Latin: Out of the night […]

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