"We're not the African Kardashians," say Nelson Mandela's granddaughters of reality show that sounds like the African Kardashians
Nelson Mandela survived nearly three decades in a South African prison, and upon his release worked more tirelessly than ever to bring equality and a democratic voice to an oppressed people. And now all of his various trials are finally paying off: Mandela’s granddaughters have at last secured their very own reality TV series. The as-yet-untitled show from American producer Rick Leed, creator of Dr. 90210 (which documented one man’s brave efforts to end segregation between lips and ass-fat), will follow a trio of younger Mandela women, all of whom were raised in the United States but returned to South Africa to follow their dreams, more or less around the time their grandfather suddenly became president. “The show will be about our lives as young, black women… We’re not wearing ‘I’m a Mandela’ T-shirts,” one of those granddaughters said at a press conference that had gathered because they are Mandelas.