Mandela's autobiography carries his life from a Thembu childhood and early law practice through the founding of the ANC Youth League, the armed struggle, and twenty-seven years in prison — most of them on Robben Island. It closes with the negotiations that ended apartheid and his inauguration in 1994 as South Africa's first democratically elected president. Few political autobiographies have matched its reach as a record of endurance and negotiated liberation.
Author: Nelson Mandela · Original publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 1994
