Carlin pens this thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament.
A collection of speeches by the South African leader includes pieces that marked such moments in his life as his imprisonment and release, his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, and his election as South Africa's first black president.
Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid. This book reconstructs the inmates' resistance strategies to show how these men created a political and social order behind bars. Survival was their first goal; challenging apartheid was their true aim. So although ...
This book covers the few months when journalist Ruth First was imprisoned by the South African government, but its concerns are more wide-ranging and cover the author's commitment to the cause of freedom in South Africa. Ruth's daughter Shawn Slovo tells her story in the film "A World Apart".
South africa's system of apartheid is one of the most controversial present- day issues, but its roots lie in a history of oppression. The conscience of governments all over the world is being tested as the double standards of many have been revealed through the conflict of financial interest versus human rights. Steve Biko came to the fore in the ...
Fiercely driven, passionately idealistic and secretly tormented, the British priest Michael Scott was a key figure in the struggles against apartheid, colonialism and, later, nuclear weapons. His activities during his ministry in South Africa in the late 1940s and early 1950s led to his being imprisoned and banned by the apartheid regime, whose ...
A remarkable statesman and one of the world's longest-detained political prisoners (1964-90), Nelson Mandela has become an exemplary figure of anti-racist struggle and democracy, a moral giant. This fascinating and uncompromising biographical study paints a complex portrait of Mandela that goes beyond hagiography: it examines his quality of ...
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