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Nelson Mandela had read "Things Fall Apart" when he was in prison on Robben Island and he described the author, Chinua Achebe: “The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down”
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The works of Shakespeare where smuggled into Robben Island Prison, South Africa under the guise of being a religious text. Prisoners annotated their favorite passages, including Nelson Mendela who highlighted, "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste death but once."
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Ivor Thord-Gray who served in Robben Island, the Phillipines, Mexico, Britain, and Russia commanding units in 13 different wars and 6 different armies.
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The inmates of Robben Island put on a production of Sophocles' Antigone in which Nelson Mandela played Creon, the (arguably) tyrannical king.
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A warden’s first words to Nelson Mandela and his comrades when they arrived at the prison on Robben Island were, "This is the Island. This is where you will die."
