In July 2014, Chulalongkorn University launched a lecture series in honor of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

2014 was also the 20th year since the end of apartheid – South Africa’s former system of racial segregation – and the Thammasat University Libraries made a timely acquisition of The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela.

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