Agence France-Presse

Mandela’s Village

August 2, 2016

By Erin Conway-Smith

Mvezo Village, in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape Province, looks a lot the way it did when Nelson Mandela was born there in 1918. (Erin Conway-Smith/GlobalPost)

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