Background
A life in pictures
Photos of the lawyer, anti-apartheid fighter, prisoner and president
Going home to Qunu
Explore the village where Nelson Mandela herded sheep as a boy in the 1920s and where he will finally be laid to rest on Sunday.
Memorial Service
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Big pictures of the service
Tens of thousands of people join world leaders at a memorial service in Johannesburg.
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Obama hails 'a life like no other'
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Who attended the event?
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Sorrow turns to celebration
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Grief drowned out
Lying in State
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The daily route
How the former leader's body travelled through Pretoria to Union Buildings.
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Nelson Mandela lying in state ends
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In pictures: Mandela lying in state
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'I saw my Mandela.. and cried'
Funeral
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Big pictures
Images of Nelson Mandela' state funeral in his ancestral home in Qunu.
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Emotional scenes at Mandela funeral
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Death rites: A Xhosa burial
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Mandela obituary read by grandson
Features and Analysis
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End of a journey
Fergal Keane: Mandela leaves country in good shape
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Number plate tribute
And nine other moments from Mandela's week of mourning
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Forgotten heroes
Some of the less well-known figures of the apartheid struggle risk being forgotten
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War of attrition
How 27 years in prison affected Mandela's politics and personality
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Mandela map
The hundreds of locations named after Nelson Mandela
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Mandela liberated me
Milton Nkosi's relationship with the Mandelas
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His economic legacy
What economic legacy did Nelson Mandela leave for South Africa?
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Master of disguise
And five other things you didn't know about Nelson Mandela
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Mandela the soldier
How Ethiopia trained him in guerrilla warfare
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Black and white
Mourning Mandela in Afrikaner heartland
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A face unknown
How a ban on Mandela's picture sealed his legend
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Free society
What did Mandela really do for South Africa?
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Famous speech
The courtroom address that sealed Mandela's reputation
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Many faces of Mandela
The icon, reconciler, fighter and charmer
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Global legacy
Mandela's impact assessed by BBC journalists
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Soweto sorrow
South Africans mourn the loss of 'Tata Mandela'
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Paying respects
Your photos of how you are honouring Nelson Mandela.
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Meeting Mandela
Readers' memories of the former South African president
Elsewhere on the BBC
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From the archive
Ten key moments in video
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In his own words
Listen to Mandela's reflections as an ANC activist
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Writing his autobiography
A fellow inmate who helped with Mandela's book
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A close friend recalls
Ahmed Kathrada on his days with Mandela in prison
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BBC Arena looks back
Two historic films on the life and work of Nelson Mandela