Nelson Mandela’s favorite Poem | Invictus by William Ernest Henley | Read by Bafana Mtini | Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism
I had commissioned my friend and colleague, Bafana Mtini, to do voice promos for my book ‘Introducing Ubuntu Stoicism’ [https://buff.ly/3QvkZZa]
And because he has a great voice, I thought it would be fitting if he did a recording of the Invictus Poem by William Ernest Henley.
The book has a chapter on Nelson Mandela’s ‘stoicism’ and features bits of this poem which he has now become synonymous with: “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
William Ernest Henley was a Victorian era poet, writer and editor (lived between 1870 to 1903).
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