“A nigger is a nigger and a Swede is a Swede”. Top leaders of Sweden’s second largest party stating position on Mandela’s struggle against apartheid
“Madiba” by Kadir Nelson/ Via newyorker.com. Illustration covering next week’s issue In the aftermath of Nelson Mandela’s demise, many opportunistic figures are trying to harvest amid people’s genuine condolence. Among those, the twittering on “deep mourning” by Swedish Foreign-Affairs minister Carl Bildt goes way far. For many of us in Sweden it evokes vivid…