Portfolio Nº2

Nelson Mandela was a person who changed people's lives for the better in Africa. He wore sophisticated clothes, in speeches and lectures, and casual clothes, in his daily activities; and he seemed to be well-groomed. He was an elder man who had short, frizzy, black and grey hair. He used to wear chains and rings.

Nelson Mandela was a good-natured person. He was a man who cared about others first, because he fought all his life for the rights of people with black skin. He was also a sensible and righteous person because he looked for equal rights for people with fair skin and people with black skin.

He changed African people´s lives for the better. He was the first black skinned person to be in charge of the South African Executive power. He was also an activist against the apartheid (political regime and social process of discrimination) and he had a long struggle to get the evenness of rights for African people.

He was viewed by people as an ambitious man in terms of the search for justice for his country and continent. He won a Nobel Prize in 1993 for his peaceful struggle for the rights of people and achieving them. To sum up, he was a good-natured man who achieved his goals.

 Matías Pignataro

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