doc ´ Long Walk to Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela ☆ Nelson Mandela

Force in the fight for human rights and racial euality The foster son of a Thembu chief Mandela was raised in the traditional tribal culture of his ancestors but at an early age learned the modern inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived In classically elegant and engrossing prose he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a Jewish firm in Johannesburg of his slow political awakening and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s He describes the struggle No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background

Nelson Mandela ☆ Long Walk to Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela book

Long Walk to Freedom The Autobiography of Nelson MandelaTo reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family the anguished breakup of his first marriage and the painful separations from his children He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964 at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty seven years in prison and the complex delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid Finally he provides the ultimate inside accoun I had skipped over this book by Nelson Mandela 1918 2013 many times thinking I had read