Nelson Mandela: His Written Legacy
Nelson Mandela: His Written Legacy
Read excerpts from letters, speeches and memoirs reflecting on each stage of his life—from the innocence of a tribal village boy to the triumphs and pressures of being South Africa's first black president.
By DAVE ROOS
One of the 20th century’s most important civil-rights change-makers, Nelson Mandela devoted his life—including 27 years in prison—to bringing an end to the cruelly segregationist policies of South Africa’s apartheid system.
Here is Mandela in his own words: excerpts from letters, speeches and memoirs reflecting upon each stage of his life—from the innocence of a tribal village boy to the triumph and pressures of being the first black African president of South Africa.
Mandela was raised in a traditional village of earthen huts in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He described the singular joys of his wide-open childhood in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
It was in the fields that I learned how to knock birds out of the sky with a slingshot, to gather wild honey and fruits and edible roots, to drink warm, sweet milk straight from the udder of a cow, to swim in the clear, cold streams and to catch fish with twine and sharpened bits of wire.
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Read excerpts from letters, speeches and memoirs reflecting on each stage of his life—from the innocence of a tribal village boy to the triumphs and pressures of being South Africa's first black president.
By DAVE ROOS
One of the 20th century’s most important civil-rights change-makers, Nelson Mandela devoted his life—including 27 years in prison—to bringing an end to the cruelly segregationist policies of South Africa’s apartheid system.
Here is Mandela in his own words: excerpts from letters, speeches and memoirs reflecting upon each stage of his life—from the innocence of a tribal village boy to the triumph and pressures of being the first black African president of South Africa.
Mandela was raised in a traditional village of earthen huts in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He described the singular joys of his wide-open childhood in his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom.
It was in the fields that I learned how to knock birds out of the sky with a slingshot, to gather wild honey and fruits and edible roots, to drink warm, sweet milk straight from the udder of a cow, to swim in the clear, cold streams and to catch fish with twine and sharpened bits of wire.
READ MORE: Nelson Mandela: His Written Legacy https://www.history.com/news/nelson-mandel...
