Nelson Mandela Long Walk To Freedom Book Review
4 35 rating details 16 730 ratings 57 reviews from his birth in a village on the banks of the mbashe river in the transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter this first volume of nelson mandela s classic autobiography charts the early years of his life which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962.
Nelson mandela long walk to freedom book review. Certainly it helps you with understanding mandela through long walk to freedom. The picture book biography by chris van wyk is told from a first person perspective with nelson mandela being the narrator. His twenty seven years in prison. 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.
In the book mandela describes his childhood. Long walk to freedom by nelson mandela. 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. Long walk to freedom.
This article aims to shed light on how scholars and critics have carried out reviews on nelson mandela s long walk to freedom. Mandela began this book in 1975 during his. The book goes into much more detail than the 2013 movie. People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
His development into a freedom fighter. Long walk to freedom came out twenty four years ago yet my amazon review is the ninth in the last five days. Long walk to freedom. Many of them have analyzed it from the autobiographical point of view and some have analysed it from the historical perspective.
The autobiography of nelson mandela long walk to freedom 1 2 nelson mandela long walk to freedom is an autobiography written by south african president nelson mandela and first published in 1994 by little brown co. I knew the basics of mandela s life his exceptional intelligence his fight against apartheid his long incarceration his nobel prize for peace. It promises you with succinct and worth reading reviews. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion.
The book profiles his early life coming of age education and 27 years in prison. Nelson mandela president rep of south africa publisher. Macdonald purnell pty ltd randburg south africa. Many critics have examined the long walk to freedom by nelson mandela.
And his remarkable role in the construction of a new democratic south africa.