Photos: How newspapers in Africa bid farewell to Madiba

  [caption id=“attachment_1270999” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A copy of a newspaper paying tribute to former South African President Nelson Mandela lies on a printing press as other copies stream through the press in the early hours of the morning in Cape Town, on 6 December, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died peacefully at home at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a moral giant. Reuters[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1271003” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A commuter buys a copy of one of Kenya’s Daily Nation, which devoted its entire front page to the death of former South African leader and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, in Nairobi, Kenya. Copies were in short supply and selling quickly Friday morning, street vendors said, after Daily Nation, one of Kenya’s leading newspapers, delayed publication to include the late-breaking news of Mandela’s death. Associated Press[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1271007” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Two young Kenyan boys sit near the pile morning newspapers on the street of Nairobi with the headlines of Nelson Mandela’s death. Associated Press[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1271011” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] A man checks a copy of a recently printed newspaper paying tribute to former South African President Nelson Mandela at a printing press in the early hours of the morning in Cape Town. Reuters[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_1271013” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] Newspaper vendor Cosmas Mutinda, 37, sells a copy of Kenya’s Daily Nation, which devoted its entire front page to the death of former South African leader and anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, to a passing commuter in morning traffic, Nairobi, Kenya. Associated Press[/caption]