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The US's first black President Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela lecture in South Africa's main city, Johannesburg, on 17 July to honour the centennial of the anti-apartheid icon's birth, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has said.
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The @NelsonMandela Foundation is honoured to announce that President Barack Obama accepted our invitation to be the speaker at this year’s The 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture to take place in Johannesburg on 17 July, ahead of Madiba’s birthday - @SelloHatang @ObamaFoundation
The lecture will focus on "creating conditions for bridging divides, working across ideological lines, and resisting oppression and inequality", the foundation added.
Mr Mandela became South Africa's first black president following the end of the racist system of apartheid in 1997.
He spent 27 years in prison for fighting for the freedom of black people.
Mr Mandela died in 2013 at the age of 95.
