At Hundred With Nelson Mandela

By Simon Ngenokesho

Nelson Mandela not only lived an exceptional life. He left behind him an extraordinary legacy. Though his life is no more, Mandela's legacy is here with us. The effects of how he lived his life, the fruits of what he did in his tie and how he invested the best of his life continues to affect many to this day.

During his lifetime, Mandela has been building a legacy and that legacy is now outliving his life. The impact f his legacy has become an extraordinary example, an inspiration for so many of us.

As leaders, we are not only challenging us to be at Hundred with Mandela as we celebrate his Centenary. It is a call on us to live for something that will outlive us. It is an appeal to everyone of us to live a life that makes up for the kind of legacy we intend to build and leave behind.

At Hundred With Nelson Mandela is a friendly, informational companion as you celebrate the legacy of Nelson Mandela. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon Ngenokesho
• Release date: Apr 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386961697

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Preface

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I was four years when Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president. Like a number of people of my age and generation from around the world, I’ve grown to admire his life and personality and to be inspired by the bricks he was using to build his legacy – the outstanding impact and difference he was making in the lives of many.

At age thirteen when I ventured into positional leadership, at my junior school, and in the following years of my being in leadership, Mandela has been one of the leaders I looked up to for leadership inspiration.

Over the years, in studying his life, as well as those of others, and their legacies for some time now, their examples became a solid example to me and inspired my interest in exemplary leadership, which has become a major component of my leadership philosophy.

In studying Mandela's legacy, as a young African leader, I've been able to learn a number of lessons especially to do with exemplary leadership. I've summarized these lessons and discussed them under these four sections: legacy, the legacy of youth, the legacy of life and living a legacy lifestyle.

I must state here that this book is written in a youthful voice primarily for a youthful audience. However, it can as well be useful to members of other age groups.

Being it that At 100 With Mandela focuses much on the subject of leadership, by reading this book, you acknowledge that you are a leader, and if you have never been so, that is, if you have never thought or be­lieved that you are a leader, today you have become one. What that means is that throughout this book, I will be addressing you as a leader.

This year, 2018, we are celebrating the Centenary of Nelson Mandela. We all know that Mandela is no more. But why celebrate his centenary? Why do we bother to say if he was here this year he would