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A review by aminowrimo
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
4.0
While this book is very enjoyable and informative and a fascinating story all on its own, I'd need a timeline of South African history, along with a little more literature to able to fully understand and appreciate all that's going on. I'd also need to take a few notes, just on the interesting little things that come up (at the moment nothing much comes to mind, but they are there).
It's a book that made me angry at times— the whites who came into Africa, are, at the time of writing, outnumbered 6 to 1, and that want to "own Africa again." Um… WHAT? It wasn't yours in the first place. But it's one of those things you have to be angry about. One can't think— "Oh, we got here, we took the natives over, and they now have no rights." The world just doesn't work that way any more, and arguably should never have worked that way.
To give an idea of how engrossing this book was, I was much more interested in reading about organizing strikes (and it's not as if he gave the mechanics of organizing a strike, just the sort of… overtones) than Huckleberry Finn. Then again, Mark Twain is not my favorite author. But this was the book that superceded everything else. It was the one thing I was most interested in doing during the entire long transportation from Malaysia to South Africa. At times I had to put it down, merely because there was so much information (I'd read about 100, 200 pages in a sitting), but otherwise, I was reading this non-stop.
It's a book that made me angry at times— the whites who came into Africa, are, at the time of writing, outnumbered 6 to 1, and that want to "own Africa again." Um… WHAT? It wasn't yours in the first place. But it's one of those things you have to be angry about. One can't think— "Oh, we got here, we took the natives over, and they now have no rights." The world just doesn't work that way any more, and arguably should never have worked that way.
To give an idea of how engrossing this book was, I was much more interested in reading about organizing strikes (and it's not as if he gave the mechanics of organizing a strike, just the sort of… overtones) than Huckleberry Finn. Then again, Mark Twain is not my favorite author. But this was the book that superceded everything else. It was the one thing I was most interested in doing during the entire long transportation from Malaysia to South Africa. At times I had to put it down, merely because there was so much information (I'd read about 100, 200 pages in a sitting), but otherwise, I was reading this non-stop.