By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 18, 2023
Before Michelle and Barack Obama, there was Winnie and Nelson Mandela. Over the course of the Mandelas’ nearly four-decade long relationship, they established themselves as South Africa’s premiere power couple.
But what exactly is a power couple? According to Cambridge Dictionary, it’s “two people who are married to each other, or in a relationship with each other, and both have extremely