Long Walk to Freedom
The long road to freedom is the German title of the 1994 publication in the United States autobiography ( Long Walk to Freedom ) by Nelson Mandela, the decades- long imprisoned anti-apartheid fighter, myth of the black freedom movement in South Africa, Nobel Peace Laureate and the first black president in South Africa's history.
Content
Mandela describes in detail his childhood in the small village of Qunu in the Transkei, the son of a Xhosa royal house, his training at school and university, his work as a young lawyer in Johannesburg and its attendant politicization, his - later violent - Activities in the African National Congress ( ANC ) and its " armed wing " for the liberation from the apartheid regime, both against him and others led political process, its total of nearly three -decade imprisonment, especially under the extremely stressful conditions on the prison island Robben Iceland before Cape Town as prisoner 46664, and its guided before his release with the President Botha and de Klerk talks about the re - admission of the ANC, and the end of apartheid. The book also includes the Mandela family situation, especially his first two marriages, with a. Since the book was published four years before his third marriage, this is not mentioned. It ends with the first free and fair elections and the subsequent inauguration of Mandela as president on May 10, 1994.
The first 500 pages of the manuscript wrote Mandela in 1972 secretly in prison on Robben Iceland. They were, despite seizure saved because had been made a copy in miniature writing and stages smuggled out of laid-off fellow prisoners as a precaution in parallel from the text.
Structure
Dedication
The book was dedicated Mandela his 6 children, 21 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, as well as explicitly all " comrades, friends and South African citizens ", which he serves.
Quotes
" Africans in South Africa means to be that one is politicized from birth, whether one admits it or not. An African child comes into a hospital only for Africans to the world, is housed in a bus just for Africans home, lives in a district only for Africans and attended school only for Africans, if it ever went to school. "
" Apartheid was a new name, but an old idea. It means something like "separation " and was the codification of all laws and regulations that had kept for centuries the blacks against the whites in a subordinate position. A suppression system, [ ... ] which in its details, in its reach was diabolically inescapable and overwhelming in its power. "