(CNN) -- It was a quiet Sunday morning in Johannesburg and I was photographing people who were registering to vote. It was my third day in South Africa and I was wondering if I'd made a mistake, hopping on a plane and flying for over 20 hours to document a struggle that I had made my struggle since I was 10 years old, growing up in Detroit. Then the serenity of the scene was pierced by a thunderous noise and a succession of pops that I thought were gunshots. I ran for cover behind an open van door. I looked up and realized that a bomb had exploded.
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Monica Morgan first photographed Nelson Mandela during his visit to the U.S. in 1990
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She was first introduced to the injustices of South Africa as a child in Detroit
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Morgan: 'There will never be another like Nelson Mandela'
As an only child raised by a single mother in the inner city of Detroit, I was fascinated with @placeholder, her racial divide and her struggles.