You likely know that Nelson Mandela died today in Johannesburg at the age of 95. An icon of the anti-apartheid effort, Mandela spent 27 years in prison before his release in 1990. He won the Nobel Peace Prize three years later and was named South Africa’s president a year after that.

U2 has a fairly long legacy with Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement, too. And so it’s natural that Bono would be one of the first to eulogize Mandela in an essay for TIME magazine:

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