Thursday 9 January 2014
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
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The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of
himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written
secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South
Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is
Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost
him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise
have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous
spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumstances a spirit
in which just about everybody can find something to admire.
