Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Books

As recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, president of the African National Congress, and head of the antiapartheid movement, Nelson Mandela is one of the world's great moral and political leaders. In his internationally bestselling memoir, Long Walk to Freedom, he tells the extraordinary story of his life - an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. He eloquently and vividly details his journey: the development of his political consciousness, his pivotal role in the formation of the ANC Youth League, his dramatic years underground - which led to a sentence of life imprisonment in 1964 - and his eventful quarter century behind bars. He also movingly recalls the momentous events leading up to his triumph in South Africa's first-ever multiracial elections in April 1994. Here is one of the most powerful and inspiring stories of our time -- a book that everyone will want to own and read.

The book that inspired the major new motion picture "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." 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. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Nelson Mandela is een van de grote morele en politieke leiders van onze tijd: een internationale held. Door zijn levenslange toewijding aan de strijd tegen raciale onderdrukking in Zuid-Afrika won hij de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede en het presidentschap van zijn land. Dit is zijn ontroerende en spannende autobiografie, waarin Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela het buitengewone verhaal van zijn leven vertelt - een epische strijd, tegenslag, nieuwe hoop en uiteindelijke overwinning .