Twenty years ago, Andrew P. Jones set political imaginations aflame with his vision of Boston's black community incorporated as a new city within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The idea of a new municipality, to be named "Mandela" after the imprisoned African National Congress leader, provoked heated debate, attracted national attention, and led to successive ballot measures in which voters expressed a preference, to Jones' disappointment, for the status quo.
In 1998, Jones left Boston to pursue his career as a filmmaker and teacher in Nelson Mandela's homeland. Now married to a South African and living in Johannesburg with his wife and their two young sons, Jones is …
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