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South Africa's archbishop emeritus and honorary Elders, Desmond Tutu (C), gestures while delivering a speech during the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on December 10, 2013. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa's irst black president after spending nearly three decades in prison, had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. AFP PHOTO / PEDRO UGARTE (Photo credit should read PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

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The historic moment when the US President shook the hand of Cuba's President



Even in death, Mandela showed his power to unite people. This was quite an extraordinary moment between the two nations, hostile for half a century.

Barack Obama did not just given Raul Castro a quick handshake, but bent down and spoke briefly to him.

Obama spoke a few moments later of "Ubuntu", which he called Mandela's "greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us."

Something he perhaps had in mind as he approached Cuba's president.

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