When the Boston Sunday Globe said, "Should be read by every person alive", they weren't just saying it. This is truly one of the best books I have ever read!
As a young man, Mandela was timid; just like any young man from the kampung. As he grew up studying, reading and practising law, he began to understand the predicaments and plights of his family and his people around him; he became a bold freedom fighter. What started off as a fight for his own freedom to stay up late at night in his school's dormitory, he ended up desiring to free his siblings (couldn't receive education). He then realised that everyone who looks like him also suffered this similar fate. And with that hunger for freedom, it culminates to his long arduous journey as a freedom fighter to liberate his people from apartheid.
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 in 1993 and 1994 respectively.
The text describes his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison. The last chapters of the book describe his political ascension, and his belief that the struggle continues against apartheid in South Africa.
Simply moving, irresistable, emotional... a wonderful memoir. Definitely a must read!
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