It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela ... fell, the prison was turned into the Robben Island Museum. The most powerful part of the tour is a visit to Mandela’s cell, a 7-by-9-foot room ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the ... he “spent the night” in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison ...