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Without ever mentioning President Donald Trump by name, former U.S. president Barack Obama on Tuesday took aim at 'strongman politics' in his highest profile speech since leaving office, using an event honouring Nelson Mandela in South Africa to urge people to respect human rights and other values now under threat.

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Obama's speech to a cheering crowd of thousands countered many of Trump's policies, rallying people around the world to keep alive the ideas that Mandela worked for including democracy, diversity and tolerance.

'I believe in Nelson Mandela’s vision. I believe in a vision shared by Gandhi and King and Abraham Lincoln. I believe in a vision of equality, justice, freedom and multi-racial democracy, built on the premise that all people are created equal.' —<a href='https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>@BarackObama</a> at <a href='https://twitter.com/hashtag/MandelaLecture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>#MandelaLecture</a> <a href='https://t.co/pdXn6kTht6'>pic.twitter.com/pdXn6kTht6</a>

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Obama was speaking at the 16th annual Nelson Mandela Lecture ahead of Mandela Day on Wednesday, the anniversary of his birth in 1918.

Obama opened by calling today's times 'strange and uncertain.' He said 'each day's news cycle is bringing more head spinning and disturbing headlines.' These days 'we see much of the world threatening to return to a more dangerous, more brutal way of doing business,' he said.

He targeted politicians pushing 'politics of fear, resentment, retrenchment,' saying they are on the move 'at a pace unimaginable just a few years ago.'

He attacked 'strongman politics,' saying 'those in power seek to undermine every institution .. that gives democracy meaning.'

He spoke for equality in all forms, saying that 'I would have thought we had figured that out by now,' and warned that countries that engage in xenophobia 'eventually .. find themselves consumed by civil war.'

And he noted the 'utter loss of shame among political leaders when they're caught in a lie and they just double down and lie some more,' warning that the denial of facts — such as that of climate change — could be the undoing of democracy.

But he told the audience that 'we've been through darker times. We've been through lower valleys,' and he closed with a call to action: 'I say if people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.'

He received a standing ovation from the crowd of about 14,000 gathered at a cricket stadium.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Graca Machel, widow of the anti-apartheid leader, introduced Obama for the lecture.

'Eloquent rebuke'

'Just by standing on the stage honouring Nelson Mandela, Obama is delivering an eloquent rebuke to Trump,' said John Stremlau, professor of international relations at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, who called the timing auspicious as the commitments that defined the life of Mandela — affectionately called Madiba by South Africans — are 'under assault' in the U.S. and elsewhere.

“We have to follow Madiba’s example of persistence and of hope.” —<a href='https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>@BarackObama</a> at the 2018 <a href='https://twitter.com/hashtag/MandelaLecture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>#MandelaLecture</a>

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'Yesterday we had Trump and [Russian President] Putin standing together. Now we are seeing the opposing team: Obama and Mandela,' Stremlau said.

This is Obama's first visit to Africa since leaving office in early 2017. He stopped earlier this week in Kenya, where he visited the rural birthplace of his late father.

Obama's speech highlighted how Nobel Peace Prize winner Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years, kept up his campaign against what appeared to be insurmountable odds to end apartheid, South Africa's harsh system of white minority rule.

Mandela, who was released from prison in 1990 and became South Africa's first black president four years later, died in 2013, leaving a powerful legacy of reconciliation and diversity along with a resistance to inequality, economic and otherwise.

Groundbreaking role

Obama has shied away from public comment on Trump, whose administration has reversed or attacked what he would consider notable achievements of his presidency. The U.S. under Trump has withdrawn from the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal while trying to undercut the Affordable Care Act, also known as 'Obamacare.'

Instead of commenting on politics, Obama's speech was drawing on broader themes and his admiration for Mandela, whom America's first black president saw as a mentor.

When Obama was a U.S. senator, he had his picture taken with Mandela. After Obama became president, he sent a copy of the photo to Mandela, who kept it in his office. Obama also made a point of visiting Mandela's prison cell, and gave a moving eulogy at Mandela's memorial service in 2013, saying the South African leader's life had inspired him.

Many South Africans view Obama as a successor to Mandela because of his groundbreaking role and his support for racial equality in the U.S. and around the world.

Former President Barack Obama, in a speech honoring the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, said he'd try to 'get some perspective' as news cycles bring 'more head-spinning and disturbing headlines.'

'Given the strange and uncertain times that we are in -- and they are strange and they are uncertain -- each day's news cycle bringing more head spinning and disturbing headlines -- I thought maybe it would be useful to step back for a moment and try to get some perspective,' the former president said in the keynote Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

His comments, while largely focused on Mandela's life as a leader and the road ahead for global democracy, offered veiled criticism of the political climate currently taking place in the United States. His remarks also come just one day after President Trump appeared to fault the U.S. for Russia's role in meddling in the 2016 election after holding a day-long summit with known adversary Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Obama on racial tensions

Obama said that it was 'surprising' to him that he had to reaffirm to the audience that 'we are all human, our differences are all superficial and that we should treat each other with care and respect.'

'I would have thought we would have figured that out by now. I thought that basic notion was well-established, turns out in this recent drift in reactionary politics, the struggle for basic justice is never truly finished.'

Obama on 'politics of fear'

Without explicitly naming any politicians of today, the politics of 'fear and resentment and retrenchment' is 'now on the move.'

'It's on a move at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. I am not being alarmist I am simply stating the facts,' he said, adding that 'strongmen politics' are suddenly ascending.

'The free press is under attack, censorship and state control of media is the rise, social media once seen as a mechanisms to promote knowledge and understanding and solidarity proved to be just as effective promoting hatred and paranoia and propaganda and conspiracy theories,' he added.

Highlighting the rise in extremist politics, Obama suggested that those on the fringes should instead 'check the history books', noting those who embraced 'rabid nationalism and xenophobia or religious superiority' often fell victim to civil war.

The president went on, saying that 'too much of politics of today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth.' 'People just make stuff up!' he exclaimed, adding that there's an 'utter loss of shame among political leaders when they're caught in a lie and they just double down and lie some more.'

'Politicians have always lied, but it used to be if you caught them lying, they'd be like, 'oh man!' Now they just keep on lying,' he said to laughs from the crowd.

Obama on immigration

Obama also highlighted the ongoing debate over immigration, again without naming Mr. Trump, saying that existing laws need to be enforced and followed but all 'while respecting humanity.' He said that it was 'not wrong' to insist that national borders matter, but that it can't be an 'excuse' to implement immigration policies 'based on race or ethnicity or religion.'

The road ahead

Obama, however, suggested that on Mandela's 100th birthday, the world now 'stands a crossroad' and that the world should respond to threats to global democracy appropriately. 'I believe in Nelson Mandela's vision, I believe in a vision shared by Ghandi and King and Abraham Lincoln, I believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and multi-racial democracy based on a premise that all people are created equally,' Obama said to rousing applause.

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He added, 'I belive we have no choice but to move forward, that those of us who belive in democracy and civil rights have a better story to tell.'

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'So if were truly to continue Madiba's long walk toward freedom, we're going to have to to work harder, we're going to have to be smarter. We're going to have to learn from the mistakes of the recent past,' said Obama.

He said that while it may be 'tempting to give into cynicism' the world must 'resist' such negative thinking 'because we've been though darker times. We've been in lower valleys.'

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'Keep believing, keep marching, keep building, keep raising your voice, every generation has the opportunity to remake the world,' he charged the crowd. 'Now's a good time to be fired up.'

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