U.S. President Barack Obama departs the Robben Island prison cell that Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment near Capetown June 30, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his family visited South Africa's bleak former prison of Robben Island on Sunday to pay tribute to ex-inmate Nelson Mandela, now critically ill in hospital.
Obama was expected to later cite the legacy of Mandela, who was imprisoned on the windswept island for most of the 27 years he spent in jail before becoming the country's first black president, in a speech at the University of Cape Town.
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