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1. Nelson Mandela - Lithographs and Photographs
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5. Lithographs and Photographs
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7. Lithographs by Nelson Mandela
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11. Contents
12. My Robben Island
13. The Window
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15. The Cell
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17. The Church
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19. The Lighthouse
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21. The Harbour
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23. Hand Signed Lithograph
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25. Jurgen Schadeberg Photographs
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29. Hand of Africa
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31. Impressions of Africa
32. Reflections of Robben Island
33. The Guard Tower
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35. Mandela's Walk
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37. The Courtyard
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39. The Ward
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41. The Tennis Court
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43. The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom
44. The Sebastian Hunter Memorial Trust
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48. Back cover
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Text only version of page 41. The Tennis Court
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Belgravia Mandela catalogue Q7:Text 21/5/08 12:51 Page 39 “...Our persistence paid off and we painted the cement courtyard surface to create a traditional tennis court layout. Strangely, Robben
Island was the first opportunity for me to play tennis since university. I was by no means an expert, but the exercise was a welcome
break from the walks to and from the quarry and round and round the yard.Being able to exercise one’s mind and body through play was immensely freeing. Playing tennis and at ending to my gardening became
my two favourite hobbies on Robben Island. It was a strange sensation enjoying such civilised hobbies in such an uncivilised place. It
caused me to reflect on the strange and perverse nature of apartheid, where they wrongly thought that one peoples’ freedom could
only be enjoyed at the expense and oppression of another...”
ARTIST’S MOTIVATION 2003
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