Cuban Book Fair panel discuss Mandela’s struggle and legacy

The San Carlos de la Cabaña fortress, main venue of the 33rd Havana International Book Fair, is hosting today a panel on the legacy of South African leader Nelson Mandela.

The panel at the Professional Book Salon, organized by Felicitas Lopez (Cuba), with the participation of speakers Dr. Fermin Robaina, Susel Abad and Andre Artur Dalama (director of the Pedagogical School of the Cuito Cuanavale University, Angola).

South Africa is the Guest of Honor at this edition of the Fair.

Mandela, considered the founding father of that nation, is valued as a man who changed the 20th century and helped forge the 21st, and a paradigm of the anti-apartheid struggle.

He was driven by values such as absolute determination, a deep commitment to justice, human rights and fundamental freedoms. Mandela championed the equality and dignity of every woman and man, and promoted dialogue and solidarity across all lines and divisions of belief and skin color in South Africa.

His attitude and thinking radiated throughout the African continent and the world.

The Book Fair winds up in Havana on February 23, and then continues throughout Cuba.

It brings to the public an offer of more than 2,400,000,000 books and the option of both paper and digital formats.