Nelson Mandela Remembered by Bono, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Harry Styles — mtv.com

Remembrances
 continue to pour in as the world mourns the loss of iconic anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, who died
 Thursday (December 5) at 95 following a series of lung infections. Among the most poignant eulogies was one from U2 singer and global activist Bono, who penned a lengthy item on Time.com that described Mandela as "a forceful presence" in his life. "Mandela would be remembered as a remarkable man just for what happened — and didn't happen — in South Africa's transition," Bono wrote. "But more than anyone, it was he who rebooted the idea of Africa from a continent in chaos to a much more romantic view, one in keeping with the majesty of the landscape and the nobility of even its poorer inhabitants. He was also a hardheaded realist, as his economic policy demonstrated. To him, principles and pragmatism were not foes; they went hand in hand. He was an idealist without -naiveté, a compromiser without being compromised."

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