i told her my african name, rohihila. she said no i don't want that.t have a christian name. so i said no i don't have one. she says you are from today you will are going to be nelson. but that is how i got the name nelson. not given by my parents. >> trevor: wow, can you imagine how mandela's parents must have felt? their kid left the nows as-- and comes back as nelson. his dad must have been so mad, they called you what, i'm calling your teacher right now, hello, this is ggadla mandela. no, your name is injury me now. oh, they got me too ha, ha. now the reason nelson mandela had to have a christian name is because back in the early 20th century white people ran south africa. so you couldn't have a name that they couldn't pronounce, all right. even though they were only 20% of the population they controlled the government, the land, the economy, everything. it is kind of like how today all those no gluten people have control of all of our menus. yeah, except in south african--after character the intolerance was real. so it was this oppression that pus