Founder of Apartheid Museum, Christopher Till, comes to Brazil invited by the Brazil Africa Institute

The founder and curator of the Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg), Christopher Till, will be in Brazil between 5 and July 7. He will fulfill schedule of Brazil Africa Institute in São Paulo and Brasilia where he intends to deal with the Brazilian assembly of the exhibition Mandela: Prisoner of the president.  The exhibition was first presented in 2008 at the Apartheid Museum on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Nelson Mandela and has been presented in Sweden, Argentina, France and Peru, being seen by about 1.1 million people. The Brazilian edition will be part of the birth centenary celebrations of the South African leader, in 2018.

In addition, Christopher Till will speak with the president of the Brazil Institute Africa, John Bosco Monte, the lecture The legacy of Nelson Mandela and his socioeconomic model in Africa: lessons for the current globalization. The lecture will take place in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Letters (FCL), University of São Paulo (Unesp) in Araraquara (SP), on 5 July at 19h.

The museologist Christopher Till is one of the main references on Mandela worldwide. In addition to the Apartheid Museum, he is currently working on creating a new museum being assembled at the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and also the Javett Art Center, which is being built at the University of Pretoria and due to open in 2018.

To more information about the Apartheid Museum just visit the official website of the organization http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/