Nelson Mandela Remembered One Year Later
It was one year ago, on Dec. 5, 2013, that Nelson Mandela died at age 95. To mark the passing of a man who U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called "a giant for justice and a down-to-earth human inspiration," TIME put out a special issue, with remembrances from luminaries like Bono and Morgan Freeman, as well as a look back by the magazine's former managing editor, Rick Stengel, who had worked closely with Mandela. Stengel recalled visiting Mandela's ancestral village with him, and finding that the South African leader seemed uninterested in talking about death, Read the full issue, here in the TIME archives Nelson Mandela, 19182013