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Name: Bedtime Biography: Long Walk to Freedom
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Author: Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

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Are you willing to give up everything to fight injustice – are you willing to give up your freedom, your family, your future? Nelson Mandela would face this question time and time again. And throughout the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, his answer was always “yes.” He dedicated his life to fighting apartheid and endured decades of public persecution, living underground, and thirty long years of imprisonment.

When he walked out of prison on February 11, 1990, the world watched in awe as the system he’d fought all his life started to crumble. Though apartheid wasn’t broken by his efforts alone, his imprisonment had come to symbolize the injustice of this regime – and it didn’t survive long once he was free. In 1991, the legal structures that supported apartheid were repealed, and 3-years later the country held it’s first free elections. All South Africans, both Black and white, were finally allowed to vote. In that same year, at the age of seventy-five, Nelson Mandela became president of a new, hopeful, and free nation.

Where did he find the strength to fight for as long and as hard as he did? What drove the twentieth century’s most famous freedom fighter? In this Bedtime Biography, we’ll take a reflective journey through his long walk to freedom.

Chapter 1

Situated in the Eastern Cape, the Transkei is a beautiful region in South Africa with rolling hills and picturesque valleys. Nestled within this landscape is the village of Mvezo. This is where, in 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born – this is the place he’d always call home. At birth, Mandela was given the name Rolihlahla, which means “troublemaker” – His parents had no idea how fitting the name would be. But it wasn’t until he was seven, on his first day at a local Christian school, that Rolihlahla was given the name “Nelson.” In South Africa’s British missionary schools, it was standard practice to replace African names with British ones. Mandela never knew why his teacher chose the name Nelson, but it stuck.

The Transkei is home to the Xhosa nation. Within this nation, Mandela’s family belong to the Thembu people, a large group who’ve resided in the area for centuries. Among them, the Mandela’s were royalty. Nelson’s father, Gadla, was both a local chief and a counsellor to the Thembu royal household. But, when Nelson was an infant, his father ran afoul of the British magistrate, who, as colonizers, had assumed the right to ratify local rulers. Gadla was proud and rebellious, and he refused to accept British authority in settling a local dispute. As a penalty, he was stripped of his title, his livestock, and his land. Suddenly impoverished, the family had to make adjustments. Nelson’s mother was forced to take him north to her tiny hometown of Qunu, where they lived in a small hut and slept on straw mats.

Chapter 2

Stunned by what they saw, Nelson and Justice fell silent as they approached the great city of Johannesburg. All they could see was a vast blanket of electric lights rising up in the distance. Before them lay a buzzing world they couldn’t even begin to imagine.

With some fore-knowledge of the city, Nelson’s dream was to put his education to work as a clerk in the mines. But the regent had sent word ahead to the manager: Don’t hire my boys. Send them back. So, Nelson and Justice were forced to look for work elsewhere.

Chapter 3

The next decade saw a blizzard of activity from Mandela. With his friend and fellow freedom fighter Oliver Tambo, he opened a law firm, Mandela and Tambo. Theirs was the only Black-led firm in South Africa, and it focused on cases of police brutality.

Meanwhile, Mandela had become a leading figure in the ANC, and was more determined than ever to end apartheid rule. After the Defiance Campaign, he was the government’s public-enemy number one, and he’d spend the rest of his days hounded by the regime at every turn.

Chapter 4

By 1961, the Treason Trial was drawing to a close. To everyone’s surprise, the judge returned a verdict of “not guilty.” Even for the biased judges, the state’s case was too flimsy: The Freedom Charter was a manifesto for freedom, not a call for violence.

But Mandela knew this was only a temporary reprieve. With the ANC defined as an illegal organization, the state could find any pretext to arrest him again. It was at this point that he decided to go underground.

Chapter 5

Life on Robben Island was hard. The cells were damp, and prisoners had straw mats for beds. There was no running water, and the only toilet was a ten-inch bucket with a lid on top.

Contact with the outside world was severely restricted – prisoners were allowed to write and receive one letter every six months. Censors scrutinized every word, cutting out any political content. And so, very often, letters from Winnie would arrive in tatters.

The End

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Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom (1994) is one of the most famous autobiographies of recent times. It tells the story of his life, from his humble beginnings in the South African countryside to his work as an iconic anti-apartheid freedom fighter, and ends, after chronicling his twenty-year prison sentence, with his final victory and release.

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Nelson Mandela is among the most eminent political figures of the twentieth century. He was the icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, devoting his entire life to the cause. For his commitment to justice, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

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