baltimore, american accent in the show. how much vocal work did it take to get that specificity in this role? to be honest it was an ongoing process. i didn t stop doing it until the very last day, you know. i worked twice i worked with two voice coaches, a woman who worked on mandela s, you know, original tongue, his original language. then there was a woman called fiona, who worked on sort of the technical aspects of what mandela s doing with his voice, his nasal, his palate, all that stuff. so, it was just an ongoing process, you know? you know, i have an ear for it. clearly. but i just wanted to give the audience something to really hold on to, you know, in terms of the fact they re watching idris. they know it s idris and they sometimes think it s string a bell, but ultimately, i m asking them to believe this is mandela, so the voice was an inroad for them. right. you choose to portray this portion of mandela s life which hasn t gotten a ton of attention, i think, in t
i m like, where is he from? because you nailed the baltimore, american accent in the show. how much vocal work did it take to get that specificity in this role? to be honest it was an ongoing process. i didn t stop doing it until the very last day, you know. i worked twice i worked with two voice coaches, a woman who worked on mandela s, you know, original tongue, his original language. then there was a woman called fiona, who worked on sort of the technical aspects of what mandela s doing with his voice, his nasal, his palate, all that stuff. so, it was just an ongoing process, you know? you know, i have an ear for it. clearly. but i just wanted to give the audience something to really hold on to, you know, in terms of the fact they re watching idris. they know it s idris and they sometimes think it s string a bell, but ultimately, i m asking them to believe this is mandela, so the voice was an inroad for them. right. you choose to portray this portion of mandela s life wh
to be honest it was an ongoing process. i didn t stop doing it until the very last day, you know. i worked twice i worked with two voice coaches, a woman who worked on mandela s, you know, original tongue, his original language. then there was a woman called fiona, who worked on sort of the technical aspects of what mandela s doing with his voice, his nasal, his palate, all that stuff. so, it was just an ongoing process, you know? you know, i have an ear for it. clearly. but i just wanted to give the audience something to really hold on to, you know, in terms of the fact they re watching idris. they know it s idris and they sometimes think it s string a bell, but ultimately, i m asking them to believe this is mandela, so the voice was an inroad for them. right. you choose to portray this portion of mandela s life which hasn t gotten a ton of attention, i think, in the recent press after his death, about this taking up the arms struggle that happened that was the period afte
youth, because on the african continent, the average age is about 15 years old. the president is developing programs that will focus on the next generation of political leaders, next generation of entrepreneurs, the next generation of legislators and civil society leaders. and that s a different kind of relationship than the u.s. has had in the past. there is, of course, ron just alluded to this and we heard this from earlier from kristen welker as well. significant challenge from china, specifically, for influence in subsahara and africa. many in africa has been disappointed at what that call a lack of u.s. attention while china continues to make inroad there s. there was a story from the new york times friday. chinese leadering have traveled extensively in africa in the last several years, investing billions of dollars in infrastructure throughout the continent. whitney, how does the president go about creating a more favorable view of the united
what exactly do they want? paul: especially so, what is to enter these negotiations. they are winning. this is something that we haven t really gotten in the way that we should. assad forces are making serious inroad and using allies hezbollah and allies in iran to defeat the sunni insurgency. we are trying to provide the insurgency with things they can always get not the things u.s. can supply like a no fly zone, bombing runways. that is what the u.s. can do very effectively. paul: isn t president obama, doesn t he have public opinion on his side. there is no american desire to get involved in another middle east conflict, is there? he never spoken syria himself.