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Mar 20, 2014 10:00 PM EDT

Edinboro University in Pennsylvania will be hosting an event to celebrate Nelson Mandela's legacy later this month, YourErie.com reported.

"A Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Nelson Mandela" is a weeklong event that will begin on March 31 and continue through April 4. It will feature speakers, panel discussions, film screenings and a candlelight walk honoring the former South African president and late anti-apartheid leader, YourErie.com reported. The celebration will also feature a keynote address delivered by international human rights activist Nontombi Naomi Tutu.

Naomi Tutu's is the daughter of world-famous South African social rights activist and retired Desmond Tutu. She was raised in apartheid South Africa, educated in Swaziland, the United States and England, and has taught at the Universities of Hartford and Connecticut as well as Brevard College. She has done a lot of work promoting human rights. She currently serves as a consultant to the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence and the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Naomi Tutu, whose keynote is titled "Social Justice, Unity and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela the Lived Model of Ubuntu" will talk about Mandela's human rights efforts.

Events will also include a screening of the film "Invictus," - a Clint Eastwood film starring Morgan Freeman which documents Mandela's attempt to "rally his apartheid-torn country around the South African national rugby team's ultimately victorious mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup," YourErie reported.

A panel discussion will be hosted the next day on the topic of "Rights and Issues Ancillary to Apartheid" featuring professors Dr. Gerald Hoffman of the Chemistry Department; Dr. Kiran Misra of the Biology and Health Services Department; and Dr. Martha Donkor of the History, Anthropology and World Languages Department. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Tadesse Kidane-Mariam.

A screening of the documentary "The Man Who Drove with Mandela" will follow.

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