In 1997, three years after apartheid 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 where a bulb ...

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 ...

Robben Island was once notorious as the prison home of many leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, including former South African president Nelson Mandela. Robben Island was once notorious as the ...

Photograph by ANNIE GRIFFITHS, Nat Geo Image Collection Robben Island’s most poignant period was the late 20th century, when the facility was used as a maximum security prison for political ...

The British used Robben Island as a political prison for rebellious Xhosa chiefs during the 19th century. It served too as a leper colony and as a lunatic asylum. But its darkest time was from the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A South African man who once served as a guard at Robben Island Prison is traveling the world, sharing the lessons he has accumulated from one of his former prisoners ...

Elba said that before filming started, he “spent the night” in a prison cell on Robben Island, which is the same prison Mandela was in from 1964 to 1982. “I’d been given the incredible ...

18 of them on Robben Island. Part of the challenge was getting used to monotony. As he put it: Prison life is about routine: each day like the one before; each week like the one before it ...

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 ...