(CNN) -- Nelson Mandela ached to come home, his family says, and he did so Sunday -- his burial the last part of a long journey that had lasted nearly a century. The prisoner turned president's funeral in his childhood village of Qunu marked the end of 10 days mourning, during which tribal elders guided Mandela's transition to the afterlife. The funeral was a final chance for those who knew him best to say goodbye. Mandela's daughter Maki told me her father had always been a country boy at heart, and wanted to return to his remote farm in the Eastern Cape, one of South Africa's most rural areas.
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Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela laid to rest in his childhood village
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Funeral and burial ended 10 days of mourning for South Africa's first black president
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More than 4,000 people gathered at Mandela's funeral service in a tent in the Qunu hills
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His family told CNN's Robyn Curnow they believed his spirit was now at home
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