This essay probes the value of Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela's career and life's work as an ongoing object lesson or theory-in-practice. Using two case studies - of the 2019 'Official Exhibition' and of a poem by Koleka Putuma referencing Mandela - the essay asks how South Africa's first democratic president's way of doing politics and his facility of interacting even-...

This essay probes the value of Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela's career and life's work as an ongoing object lesson or theory-in-practice. Using two case studies - of the 2019 'Official Exhibition' and of a poem by Koleka Putuma referencing Mandela - the essay asks how South Africa's first democratic president's way of doing politics and his facility of interacting even-...

This essay probes the value of Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela's career and life's work as an ongoing object lesson or theory-in-practice. Using two case studies - of the 2019 'Official Exhibition' and of a poem by Koleka Putuma referencing Mandela - the essay asks how South Africa's first democratic president's way of doing politics and his facility of interacting even-...

This essay probes the value of Nelson Rohihlahla Mandela's career and life's work as an ongoing object lesson or theory-in-practice. Using two case studies - of the 2019 'Official Exhibition' and of a poem by Koleka Putuma referencing Mandela - the essay asks how South Africa's first democratic president's way of doing politics and his facility of interacting even-...