Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa, on 18
July 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was
engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid
policies after 1948. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at
Robben Island Prison and then later moved to Pollsmoor Prison,
during which his reputation as a potent symbol of resistance to the
anti-apartheid movement grew steadily. Released from prison in
1990, Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was inaugurated
as the first democratically elected president of South Africa in
1994. He is the author of the international bestseller Long Walk to
Freedom. He died on 5 December 2013, aged ninety-five.
Graça Machel was born in Mozambique in 1945. A teacher,
human rights activist, international advocate for women’s and
children’s rights, and politician, she was – from 1975 until his
death in 1986 – married to Samora Machel, the first president of
Mozambique. In July 1998 she married Nelson Mandela. Among numerous
awards she has received the United Nations’ Nansen Medal in
recognition of her long-standing humanitarian work, particularly on
behalf of refugee children.
Mandla Langa was born in 1950 in Durban, South Africa. After
being arrested in 1976, he went into exile and has lived in
Botswana, Mozambique and Angola, as well as Hungary, Zambia and the
United Kingdom, where he was the ANC’s Cultural Representative. A
writer and journalist, he was the first South African to be awarded
the Arts Council of Great Britain bursary for creative writing and
has been a columnist for the Sunday Independent and the New Nation.
He is also the author of several acclaimed novels, including The
Lost Colours of the Chameleon, which won the 2009 Commonwealth
Prize for Best Book in the African Region.
Reveals the struggles, setbacks and frustrations that to this very
day thwart the progress of Africa.
*Guardian Best Books of 2017*
Reveals why Mandela was irreplaceable . . . he was so unique and he
made it look so easy.
*Observer*
Underneath the history that has been made, there is a human being
who chose hope over fear – progress over the prisons of the past .
. . Even as he became a legend, to know the man – Nelson Mandela –
is to respect him even more.
*Barack Obama*
A rare human being who, in freeing himself of his demons, also
became free to give his extraordinary leadership to his country and
the world.
*Bill Clinton*
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