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Eulogy: Read Bono’s Eulogy For Nelson Mandela
submitted by Nick Dec 6th 2013 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)
For the entire time he’s been famous, U2 frontman Bono has been vocal in his support of the South African revolutionary turned president Nelson Mandela, and he worked closely with Mandela on various nonprofit initiatives in the later years of Mandela’s life. (Just this past month, U2 contributed the song “Ordinary Love” to the Mandela [...]
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