Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his unexpected UNF connection

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist argumentation of apartheid and a modern-day activistic for radical justness and LGBT rights, died Sunday astatine 90. South Africans, satellite leaders and radical astir the globe mourned the decease of the antheral viewed arsenic the country’s motivation conscience.

One of those who mourned Tutu’s decease connected Sunday was erstwhile Jacksonville politician and president of the University of North Florida John Delaney.

Tutu taught “The Struggle Against Apartheid” mini-courses astatine the schoolhouse during the outpouring semester successful 2003 and maintained his narration with UNF for years acknowledgment to person Oupa Ceane who was a prof there.

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“Was blessed to person meal with Desmond Tutu earlier interviewing him connected signifier astatine UNF. Great consciousness of wit and brilliance into mankind and God, often successful aforesaid sentence. Several times a year, helium would nonstop an email oregon substance retired of the bluish offering a prayer. We mislaid greatness today,” Delaney tweeted.

Tutu donated a postulation of his papers to UNF’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library successful grant of Delaney for 15 years starring the assemblage and his retirement.

The Archbishop Desmund Tutu Collection was presented to Delaney successful 2018 during the university’s yearly Professional Development Forum Awards Luncheon.

The manuscripts volition go portion of the Library’s imperishable collection and it’s Tutu’s tendency that the documents beryllium placed successful the assemblage archives and made disposable for organization probe by module and students.

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The postulation includes:

• Two publication manuscripts. These are texts that helium created portion penning the books. At the clip helium was penning the text, the books weren’t published, truthful these are unsmooth drafts. The books person since been published are: “Number Two to Tutu A Memoir by Michael Nuttall” and “God Has a Dream by Desmond Tutu,” which helium wrote portion teaching astatine UNF.

• Class notes portion teaching astatine UNF

• Speeches that helium was making astir the satellite astatine the time

• Correspondence with his friends and his assistant

Tutu besides came to UNF successful 1999 arsenic portion of the Presidential Lecture Series. Behind some visits was Ceane, a erstwhile adjunct manager for the Center of International Business Studies astatine UNF, professor, and person of Tutu’s from the days erstwhile Tutu was dean of the cathedral successful Johannesburg, according to the Jacksonville Daily Record.

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