Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela:95th Birthday Marked Worldwide.

Well-wishers in South Africa & all over the world gather to wish Nelson Mandela happy birthday. To mark the former president's 67 years of public service, people across the country spend 67 minutes doing some form of public service or charitable work.
He is Probably one of the most influential icons of African history and a sparkling star of our times, Nelson Mandela is fighting the ultimate battle for his life today, physically. However, his legacy will remain as important a chapter of Africa till the end of times.
July 18th becomes personally significant for being in proximity of South Africa, it appears that and the charisma of Mandela is painted on the beautiful skies of Southern Africa. 95 years ago, no one from the royal house of Xhosas knew that this baby born in a small village in the village of Mvezo in Umtatu of the Cape Province will become a legend untold in the history of Africa. Even his forename Rolihlahla, meaning ‘troublemaker’ had something of an enigma about the colours of his personality, only history discovered it subsequently.

South Africa and better part of Africa is resonating with prayers for his recovery, despite the fact that Madiba is on life support, millions of Madiba lovers and followers are hopeful. They are praying in churches, mosques, synagogues and temples across the world, especially in South Africa. Africans have their own way and style of offering prayers, even in sombre times and death, some of them will dance with music and call for the souls of their forefathers to heed to their prayers, others would observe long vigils at night time to observe silence and pray quietly in their hearts, the new youth is extensively using social media to express their love and attachment with Madiba.

Even President Obama’s recent visit to South Africa was dominated by the Madiba phenomenon. His stay in the Rainbow Nation included a visit to Robbon Islands, where Nelson Mandela spent years as a prisoner of the Apartheid regime of erstwhile, White South Africa.

Despite being a revolutionary and an embodiment of armed struggle for black South Africa, Nelson Mandela’s soft heart within created one of the major tectonic shifts in African history; liberation of black South Africa and creation of a Rainbow Nation through a policy of truth and reconciliation. If Madiba had not displayed statesmanship and magnanimity, South Africa could have easily been engulfed by a deadly civil war and bloody campaign of vendetta by blacks against minority whites.