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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
5.0
This was an amazing history filled book. He recently died, and I was ashamed that the extent of my knowledge of the apartheid was from the movie District 9 (incredible film btw)! This is an entire history of Mandela, but also a history of many of his fellow men and women who were being treated as less then human. Growing up his experiences and behaviors were not too different then reactions we would have taken, such as his running off instead of being married off to a woman he didn't know.
This is such an extensive history that it is hard to summarize, but he became the first African lawyer in Johannesburg and also became a freedom fighter at the same time. And sacrificed so much, with so many others. This is is his story, so understandably I felt it could be a bit egotistical at times, such as taking charge of negotiations behind his fellow activists back, but everything happens for a reason, and to have brought so much change you better be confident in yourself or else he would never have succeeded. It is a complete picture of an imperfect man who helped change the world for the better.
This is such an extensive history that it is hard to summarize, but he became the first African lawyer in Johannesburg and also became a freedom fighter at the same time. And sacrificed so much, with so many others. This is is his story, so understandably I felt it could be a bit egotistical at times, such as taking charge of negotiations behind his fellow activists back, but everything happens for a reason, and to have brought so much change you better be confident in yourself or else he would never have succeeded. It is a complete picture of an imperfect man who helped change the world for the better.