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A bit foreword! Nelson Mandela plans legal action over 'fake endorsement'.
(From Guardian Unlimited)
In the crowded field of political biography, it can be hard for a novice author to stand out. But not Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the president of Congo-Brazzaville, who has certainly managed to make a splash.
In his new tome he boasts, in large type on the cover, that it contains a foreword written by Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president.
The foreword praises Sassou-Nguesso as "one of our great African leaders" which, as endorsements go, beats the Booker and Nobel prizes rolled into one.
But the biography, Straight Speaking for Africa, appears to fall short of its title. Mandela has issued a statement saying …
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