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by Nelson Mandela
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He was a great man, one of the greatest of the century. Not perfect, but always striving for perfection. We need to read him, study him, emulate him. This book is a great start.
bbbart
bbbart rated it 9 years ago
Just finished reading Long Walk to Freedom in preparation to a holiday in South-Africa.How to review an epic work like this one?After finishing reading about Mandela's struggle which was his life, I can only humbly assess what I think of this book as a medium to tell his story, for his life's story ...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 10 years ago
Recently, I was teaching a class where the students read an essay about the reconciliation meetings that were done in South Africa. And my students did not know, or claimed not know, who Mandela was. Sad, but true. As time goes on, we forgot. We are a ...
KizunaYueMichaelis
KizunaYueMichaelis rated it 10 years ago
R.I.P Nelson Mandela. A true leader of his nation. And how hard it must have been to be his wife/daughter/son.
meganbaxter
meganbaxter rated it 10 years ago
I've known far too little about Nelson Mandela. I knew who he was, of course, and some of the bare outlines of his life. But I think I'd fallen into knowing little more than what Cornel West, after Mandela's death, called the "Santa-Clausification" of the South African leader. By that, he meant the ...
Henry Martin - Author of contemporary Literary Fiction
It is not very often that I set to read non-fiction. This book, however, was originally recommended to me by a Rwanda refugee and so I made an exception. What a good decision that was.Although I was familiar with Mandela's life and South Africa's struggle against the apartheid regime, this book prov...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
Read by Danny Glover, and with an introduction by Kofi Annan. Soundtrack Ladysmith Black Mambazo.Momentous times with a focused man to deal with them made for an interesting listen.
Bookish for life
Bookish for life rated it 13 years ago
Nelson Mandela's autobiography is very interesting and impressive - I knew very little about how apartheit got started and what Mandela did before his incarceration. Also, it's narrated by someone with the right kind of voice - an African, I'd say, who can believably deliver the Xosa and Afrikaans l...
Warwick
Warwick rated it 13 years ago
At over 700 pages, Nelson Mandela's autobiography might look like a serious commitment. Actually though, it doesn't feel like a heavy book at all. Like the thinking which informs it, the writing is clear, measured and straightforward, albeit scattered with bits of Harvard English that are presumably...
Kiwiria
Kiwiria rated it 16 years ago
I can't NOT rate this book 5 stars because it's such a necessary book to read in order to understand an important part of South Africa's history. I have friends who came from South Africa, and therefore thought I knew some of what had happened both during apartheid and during the disbandment of it. ...
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