Where is the Media's Mandela?

The world today celebrated the birthday of the world's greatest statesman alive:Nelson Madiba Mandela.This is a man who clearly broke ranks with most of his contemporaries and   to set an example of what a true statesman should be.

For starters Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years at the notorious Robben Island prison   for agitating against the racially discriminative Apartheid.A lawyer by profession ,Mandela  was deeply concerned by the plight of his people and mounted a struggle that finally  laid the foundation of  South Africa as the world knows it today .

Coincidentally,Madiba's birthday  celebration comes at a time when  the world is deep in  a controversial  discussion regarding a  media malpractice that might lay the ground  to  several  criminal prosecutions involving  journalists ,politicians the police  and even politicians and celebrities.The News Of  the World has been accused of hacking into a victim's  phone for information in  a saga that has seen a publication's folding  and a series of resignations .

But here's a quote  fom Madiba that should give us  how we should approach the media particularly in Africa"

“I have fought against white dominance and I have fought against BLACK dominance. I have kept by my ideal of a democratic and free community where everyone can live together in harmony and with the same possibilities. ”

The ideal society should be devoid of media dorminance and government dorminance.