Bob Fabien Zinga

Embracing the Impossible with the late President Nelson “Madiba” Mandela

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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A recitation of William Ernest Henley's "Invictus," the poem Mandela drew strength from during his 27 years in prison. The narrator delivers the famous lines "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul," capturing the defiance and resolve that defined Mandela's fight against oppression.

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Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of fate, my head is bloody, but I unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

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