In classically elegant and engrossing prose, renowned South African leader Nelson Mendela tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a firm in Johannesburg, his slow political awakening, and his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s, according to a review on. Mandela was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1993.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. He was imprisoned for over 27 years, during which his repute as an icon of resistance to the anti-apartheid movement grew immeasurably.
Nelson Mandela was the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, philanthropist and politician, who served as the President of the country. Mandela is counted among the few great political leaders like Lincoln and Gandhi, who, for the sake of the humanity, went beyond the mere consensus and walked ahead of their followers to break new ground, and break walls and supplant them with the message of humanity, hope, freedom and love. It burns with the luminosity of belief in the unconquerable nature of human hope and dignity. This poignant, absorbing and inspiring autobiography is the story of an epic life, a story of suffering, resilience and decisive triumph told with the simplicity and eloquence of a born leader.
Nelson Mandela became the democratically elected, first black president of South Africa in 1994. The spellbinding memoirs of the exceptional moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom intensely recounts the spectacle of the experiences that facilitated the shaping up Nelson Mandela's destiny. Long Walk to Freedom is the autobiographical account of the South African President Nelson Mandela.
0 kommentar(er)
