Biografi Nelson Mandela
" A Long Walk to freedom "
These are memoirs of a great moral and political figure, an
international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial
oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the
presidency of his country. 'Long Walk to Freedom' is his exhilarating
story. Mandela recounts his youth, as the foster son of a Thembu chief,
raised in the traditional tribal culture of his ancestors as he grew to
learn the inescapable reality of apartheid oppression. He tells of his
early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg and
of his slow political awakening. He also describes his personal
struggles at that time of having to reconcile his political activity
with family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the
painful separation from his children. The escalating political warfare
in the 1950s between the ANC and the government is vividly brought to
life, culminating in Mandela's dramatic escapades as an underground
leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was
sentenced to life imprisonment. He recounts the surprisingly eventful 27
years in prison and the complex negotiation which led to both his
freedom and to the beginning of apartheid's end.
