Fine Minds

Fine Music Radio — “Addressing Mandela” is presented by Professor COLIN BUNDY, retired principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford and formerly vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand and principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Professor Bundy uses details of Nelson Mandela’s dress at different stages of his life as a narrative device, an unconventional route to a biography of the global icon. Beginning with the moment that the seven-year-old Nelson Mandela replaces his blanket with a pair of his father’s cut-off trousers, and taking us all the way to the immaculate suit of his release in 1990 and the rugby shirt of 1995, the lecture asks what such sartorial details reveal about Mandela the man, the politician and the icon. Fine Minds has been made possible by a grant from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation