By the time King Nissankamalla had established himself as the king of Sri Lanka, many had forgotten about Kalinga and Sinhapura. But when this king rose to power, they were referred to often. King Nissankamalla had proclaimed that the ancestors of this country were the people from his motherland. In his inscriptions he had laid down the fact that "One who is not a Buddhist, has no claim to the throne of this country."
Nelson Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy. He was imprisoned for 27 years and went on to become his country's first black president.
