The life of Nelson Mandela is to be the subject of a $20 million TV mini-series spanning six decades and the events leading to his election as South Africa's first black president after 27 years in jail.
Mandela, 93, has given his approval for the six-hour drama, which is due to go into production later this year. Casting is still being finalised. The producers are in talks with broadcasters in Britain and the US. The scripts are based on two books, Conversations with Myself and Nelson Mandela by Himself.
Titled Madiba, the clan name from the Xhosa tribe by which Mandela has often been known, the mini-series is being co-produced by his grandson, Kweku Mandela, and the British filmmakers who were behind The Queen and The Damned United. Kweku Mandela said it would not just be another project painting his grandfather as ''Mandela the saint''. GUARDIAN
What memorable and illustrous life. you deserve more than a story.
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