Horatio and me about to get the French acclaimed leader in The Dark Continent (6,7)
I believe the answer is:
nelson mandela
'horatio and me about to get the french acclaimed leader in the dark continent' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'horatio and me about to get the french' is the wordplay.
'horatio' becomes 'nelson' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'to get' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the french' becomes 'la' ('the' in French).
'and' put into 'me' is 'mande'.
'nelson'+'mande'+'la'='NELSON MANDELA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nelson mandela that I've seen before include "statesman" , "South African president, d. 2013" , "national leader" .)