Friday, 22 November , 2024

Mandela

Friendship and Solidarity in Prison: Mandela and Habashi

Amidst the climactic experience of imprisonment on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela comments on a friendship established with a prosperous colored criminal prisoner saying, “prison is an incubator of friendship-’ (Mandela 280). It is indeed the role of friendship and solidarity during very oppressive times that this article attempts to explore.