In late February 1990, 16 days after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela descended the steps of a plane in Lusaka, Zambia, which was home to the African National Congress's exiled leadership at the time. ... But the most emotional embrace of all came from a short, stout man with his trademark keffiyeh wrapped around his head: Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
While it is unclear where he got it or why he chose to wear it that day, it could not have been an accident Mandela was notoriously deliberate about how he dressed. Mandela's ghostwriter Richard Stengel observed: Mandela was always aware of his own image.
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