Nelson Mandela

After reading the article about Mandela's death, I personally think I still don't know who he was. I didn't want to do research about him because since I don't know who is he I just decided to read the article and a have a real opinion of him based on that source. It's easily to google his name and get information about him and come back here and write that he did this and that. I'm surprised I never have heard people mention his name until Thursday even the president of the U.S talked about him Thursday evening. By reading this article it seems that Nelson Mandela was a very kind man wanting to change the world. People have nothing to say but positive things about him which makes me think he was a great person but I need evidence what did he really do, why are people so sadden about his death? Yes, he went to prison for 27 years which is a really long period of time and let me tell you he seems like a strong man because after that he became president of South Africa. Overall by the looks of it he went through some tough events in his life and it sounds to me that he had hope in humanity and respected every living soul that cross him. He was like another Malcolm X.