Of Madiba, Obama and living Martin Luther King Jr’s dream

By OYUNGA PALA

KENYA: Madiba’s funeral was always going to be a media circus. For the last decade, every time Mandela sneezed, the world held out a pressed handkerchief. If the obsessive detail of Mandela’s health over the last months was anything to go by, the funeral was set to be the global media event of the year. When Mandela died, the world literally stopped and reflected on the life of an individual whose magnanimity touched the globe in a manner comparable perhaps only to Bob Marley’s musical legacy.