Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
From a Transkei childhood to Robben Island to the presidency.
Mandela's autobiography, begun secretly during his imprisonment and completed as he became South Africa's first democratically elected president, traces his path from a rural Xhosa childhood through law, the ANC and the turn to armed struggle, to twenty-seven years in prison and the negotiated end of apartheid. Beyond memoir, it documents the movement's strategy and its internal debates over tactics and principle.
Its legacy. It became one of the most widely read accounts of the struggle against apartheid.
- Author
- Nelson Mandela
- First published
- 1994
- Genre
- Autobiography
- Theme
- Liberation and the Decolonized Mind
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