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From Publishers Weekly

This fluid memoir matches South African President Mandela's stately grace with wise reflection on his life and the freedom struggle that defined it. Mandela began this book in , during his year imprisonment.

He has fleshed out a sweeping story that begins in the rural Transkei in and moves beyond, especially to Johannesburg, where he became politically active as one of only a few black African lawyers. As an African National Congress leader, this military novice helped launch an armed struggle against the intransigent apartheid government, then eloquently explained his political convictions when on trial in for sabotage.

Perhaps the most powerful passages involve the Robben Island prison, where political prisoners formed a "university" and Mandela read books like War and Peace, resisting embitterment and finding decency even in callous Afrikaner jailers.

Moved to a mainland prison in , Mandela, unable to consult with exiled ANC leaders, initiated intricate ne