The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Series invites prominent people to drive debate on significant social issues. The lecture series is an important event on the Nelson Mandela Foundation's calendar, and encourages people to enter into dialogue – often about difficult subjects – in order to address the challenges we face today.

This year, Barack Obama took to the podium a day before what would have been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday. We as the born-free generation deliver our opinions.