Mandela Long Walk To Freedom Book Review

Nelson mandela president rep of south africa publisher.

Mandela long walk to freedom book review. Beginning with his birth in the small thembu village of mvezo in 1918 chris van wyk s adaptation traces mandela s story through his school years his early career as a lawyer and his role in the african national congress. His development into a freedom fighter. Mandela is serious about this. In the book mandela describes his childhood.

The riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political leaders of our time an international hero whose accomplishments won him the 1993 nobel peace prize. He mentions that when his african national congress decided to commit to violence they read works by and about che guevara mao tse tung fidel castro to figure out how to do it. Macdonald purnell pty ltd randburg south africa. Long walk to freedom.

Long walk to freedom the autobiography of nelson mandela describes the south african antiapartheid struggle from the perspective of one of its most important participants. His twenty seven years in prison. Long walk to freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history s greatest figures. Long walk to freedom is the first book i ve read by the leader of a country containing instructions on how to overthrow a country.

Here for the first time nelson rolihlahla mandela told the extraordinary story of his life an epic of struggle setback renewed hope and ultimate triumph.