Mr Mandela spent 27 years in prison after being convicted of treason by the white minority government only to forge a peaceful end to white rule by negotiating with his captors after his release in 1990.

Mandela and Obama both served as Te first black leaders of their nations

His death during a period of deep unease and painful self examination for South Africa. 

he was a very important person to his country 

people had said their country was not the same with out them