From Nelson Mandela's inaugural speech[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
You are i chi0 ot'God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us - it is in everyone.
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Written by Jon Gadsby
Illustrated by Freelance Animators[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
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THE SONG OF NELSON ANDELA[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
PROLOGUE

On 18 July 1918 a baby boy was born in the village of Mvezo, in the Transkei, a region of South Africa. The baby's father was a local chief of the Thembu house and named his son Rolihlahla.The baby was to grow up in his mother's village (or kraal) of Qunu and was to become widely known as Nelson Mandela. In later years, as a sign of respect, Nelson was also called Madiba. He was to fight for his people and become an inspiration to the world.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

As a boy, Nelson Mandela played with all the other children in the village: swirnming in the clear streams; sliding down hills on flat stones; playing hide-and-seek; and stick-fighting in a game called thinti. None of the villagers had much money, but there was warm milk straight from the cow and nuts, honey and fruit to gather. Nelson helped look after his family's cows, horses, goats and sheep, and would wonder about his future. He loved to be alone in the wide, open spaces of the veld and enjoy his freedom.

Freedom is a very important thing for a little boy who grows up thinking he is free ... and then finds out he is not. When he was older, Nelson learnt about the injustices of his country. He saw how his people were not free to live as they pleased simply because of the colour of their skin. He decided to fight the wrongs of his country and carried his message of freedom like a torch. His message spread, but it was a threat to those in power.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
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Before long Nelson Mandela and many of his friends were put in jail in an attempt to silence their protests. But even the hard, cruel work he was made to do in the prison's stone quarry and the years he spent locked up could not put out the light of freedom that burned inside him. The memories of his happy childhood kept Nelson's hope alive for a better life for his people. He tried to forgive those in power. On long, lonely nights in his prison cell, Nelson would dream of his childhood games. The one he remembered most fondly was khetha, in which each girl picked her favourite boy. He wanted everyone to have that sense of freedom he had had as a child.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
Nothing was to put out the flame of this hope. After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela was returned to his people as their hero and the country's president. His message of freedom for all could not - and never will be extinguished.
Gather round and hear a song[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
of black and white, and right and wrong, a little boy who came to be the spark to set a people free.

Born of Thembu, chieftain, high, your playground is the broad Transkei. Your father names you Rolihlahla, a Xhosa boy, a child: Mandela.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

prince of peace they'd say one day,
of gaines to play
d blanket wornn with pride. ad-backed bullocks let you ride.
er sings a song of joy:
listen, listen Xhosa boy.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

Free born as a child you roam, Qunu Kraal, your mother's home; freedom in the stick you carry, lightning feet to thrust and parry.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

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Hardene feet to tread the ruts
to run between the beehive huts. When freedom is to rise from sleep to tend the horses, goats and sheep.

I .As h rd boy of your father's cattle,
could-you see the coming battle?[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

u play with toys of grass and clay, stick-fight games make up the day.
You catch a fish with string and wire, roast some mealies round the fire.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

Aprince o e c a heavy lo
a long climb on a rocky road.
N1~I ow young Madiba, alf-back r
sits on stones and slipping,. &
gathers honey uts and frui
how true to eye that slingshot shoots

ushing playmates to the edge,
for joyrides on an ox-drawn sledge.
Warm milk directly from the co crops to plant, and fields to plough.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
alone upon the trackless veld.

Free to go and free to stay,
free to laugh and sing and play games of tag and hide-and-seek, free to do, and free to speak.

Thinti with the[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

sticks and stones ar.

... these, the thin
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free the time o~
Free to grow and s~'
that many more wer,

Thinti with the other boys,
sticks and stones and dirt and noise ... ... these, the things that freedom meant - free the time of childhood spent.

Free to grow and soon to see that many more were not so free.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

ow river calls those hardene to march upon a city street.
Now river whispers, "Listen. Seek.
cry the call of freedom. Speak!"
the path to freedom. Be
light to shine the people free.

Madiba labou
sentenced in a IJ
Free the spark t hl the brutal Robbo~

Madiba labours, sad not sorry, sentenced in a limestone quarry. Free the spark that flickered, lit the brutal Robben Island pit.

A trial to work, a trial to live,
a trial to think the word "forgive". Still Qunu's, crystal river calls[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
its message through the concrete walls.
Hold your childhood Rolihlahla,
hold the boy, the child Mandela. Khetha's laughter now dispels' the silence of.those'prison- cells.

H1 though
one day to Qunu I Still freedom's cani
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the children, that's

Hold the thought, the flame, the burn, one day to Qunu Kraal retur Still freedom's candle never dies - the children, that's where freedom lies.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]

River whispers through its gravel, river points a path to travel. River sings its song of joy: bayete a-a-a, Xhosa boy.

WORD GLOSSARY
Madiba A traditional title often used to address Nelson Mandela as a sign of respect. (Pronounced Madeeba.)
Xhosa The large South African nation into which Nelson Mandela was born. (Commonly pronounced Kosa - though the Xhosa language has a click sound that is properly used to begin this word.)
Thembu The royal Xhosa house of Nelson's father's family, which reaches back twenty generations to King Zwide. (Pronounced Tembu.)
Transkei The area approximately 800 miles (1300 km) east of Capetown and 550 miles (900 km) south of Johannesburg, lying between the Kei River and the Natal border, and between the Drakensburg Mountains and the Indian Ocean.
Rolihlahla Ntlson Mandela's true and traditional name, bestowed upon him by his father; it means `pulling the branch of a tree'. (Pronounced Rawlitaatla.)[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
Qunu The village, with its beehive-shaped huts, where Nelson Mandela was brought up by his mother. (Pronounced Koonu.)
Kraal A fenced compound or village.
Mealies Maize or corn.
Veld The open fields or prairie.[ 南非故事 Cooltang.com ]
Thinti A war game in which two teams of boys try to knock down sticks put up by the opposing team. (Pronounced tinti.)
Khetha Nelson Mandela's favourite childhood game.The girls each had to choose the boy they liked - along with lots of teasing and laughter.
Bayete a-a-a Hail . . . the traditional salute of the Xhosa for their chief.
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