Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela’s personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the postapartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency—a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela’s first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. While other books have recounted Mandela’s life from the vantage of the present, Conversations with Myself allows, for the first time, unhindered insight into the human side of the icon.

Conversations with Myself

The leader of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement chronicles his life, including his tribal years, his time spent in prison, and his return to lead his people.

The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom

Presents thirty-two favorite African folktales as selected by the Nobel Laureate, complemented by specially commissioned paintings, in a collection that includes the tales of Simba the Kenyan lion, Zulu tricksters, and the Khoi fable about how animals acquired their tails and horns. 60,000 first printing.

Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

One of NPR's Great Reads of 2018 An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future leader of South Africa wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, to his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, many of which have never been published, provide exceptional insight into how Mandela maintained his inner spirits while living in almost complete isolation, and how he engaged with an outside world that became increasingly outraged by his plight. Organized chronologically and divided by the four venues in which he was held as a sentenced prisoner, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela begins in Pretoria Local Prison, where Mandela was held following his 1962 trial. In 1964, Mandela was taken to Robben Island Prison, where a stark existence was lightened only by visits and letters from family. After eighteen years, Mandela was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison, a large complex outside of Cape Town with beds and better food, but where he and four of his comrades were confined to a rooftop cell, apart from the rest of the prison population. Finally, Mandela was taken to Victor Verster Prison in 1988, where he was held until his release on February 11, 1990. With accompanying facsimiles of some of his actual letters, this landmark volume reveals how Mandela, a lawyer by training, advocated for prisoners’ human rights. It reveals him to be a loving father, who wrote to his daughter, “I sometimes wish science could invent miracles and make my daughter get her missing birthday cards and have the pleasure of knowing that her Pa loves her,” aware that photos and letters he sent had simply disappeared. More painful still are the letters written in 1969, when Mandela—forbidden from attending the funerals of his mother and his son Thembi—was reduced to consoling family members through correspondence. Yet, what emerges most powerfully is Mandela’s unfaltering optimism: “Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark & grim, who try over and & over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation & even defeat.” Whether providing unwavering support to his also-imprisoned wife or outlining a human-rights philosophy that resonates today, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela reveals the heroism of a man who refused to compromise his moral values in the face of extraordinary punishment. Ultimately, these letters position Mandela as one of the most inspiring figures of the twentieth century. From The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela “A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms & whose bodies are maimed in the course of contest.” “I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.” “My respect for human beings is based, not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.” “A good pen can also remind us of the happiest moments in our lives, bring noble ideas into our dens, our blood & our souls. It can turn tragedy into hope & victory.”

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

Frantz Fanon

bell hooks

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Arundhati Roy

James Baldwin

Malala Yousafzai

Toni Morrison

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Malcolm X

Mao Tse-Tung

Che Guevara

Frederick Douglass

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joseph Stalin

Paulo Freire

Frida Kahlo

Grace Lee Boggs

George Jackson

Walter Rodney

Michael Parenti

Vladimir Lenin

Kwame Ture

Assata Shakur

Audre Lorde

Tupac Shakur

Fidel Castro

Bhagat Singh

Thomas Sankara

Angela Y. Davis

Rosa Luxemburg

Bobby Seale

Combahee River Collective

Harry Haywood

Huey P. Newton

Jonathan Jackson

Enver Hoxha

Xi Jinping

Kwame Nkrumah

Nina Simone

Amilcar Cabral

Paul Robeson

Claudia Jones

Chief Seattle

Sundiata Acoli

Anuradha Ghandy

Marsha P. Johnson

Alexandra Kollantai

Carlos Marighella

Dimitrov

Leila Khaled

Chico Mendes

Fred Hampton

Les Feinberg

Ho Chi Min

Dolores Ibarruri

Ghasson Kanafani

Sub Marcos

José Mariátegui

Evo Morales

 Kevin Rashid Johnson

Sukarno

Inspired by Mao's Little Red Book, this work is full of quotes to inspire and teach revolution. With quotes from the Combahee River Collective, Mao, Lenin, bell hooks, Assata Shakur, 2pac, Malcolm X, Stalin, Les Feinberg, Fred Hampton, Fanon, and more, this book is bound to inspire the revolutionary spirit inside you and your comrades to organize, educate, and revolt! Full list of authors: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin Mumia Abu-Jamal Sundiata Acoli James Baldwin Amilcar Cabral Fidel Castro Che Guevara Combahee River Collective Angela Davis Dimitrov Frederick Douglass Friedrich Engels Frantz Fanon Les Feinberg Paulo Freire Anuradha Ghandy Fred Hampton Harry Haywood Ho Chi Min bell hooks Enver Hoxha Dolores Ibarruri Kim Il-Sung George Jackson Jonathan Jackson Marsha P. Johnson Claudia Jones Frida Kahlo Ghasson Kanafani Leila Khaled Martin Luther King, Jr. Alexandra Kollantai James and Grace Lee Boggs Vladimir Lenin Audre Lorde Rosa Luxemburg Nelson Mandela Mao Tse-Tung Sub Marcos José Mariátegui Carlos Marighella Karl Marx Chico Mendes Evo Morales Toni Morrison Huey P. Newton Kwame Nkrumah Michael Parenti Rashid Paul Robeson Walter Rodney Arundhati Roy Thomas Sankara Bobby Seale Chief Seattle Assata Shakur Tupac Shakur Nina Simone Bhagat Singh Joseph Stalin Sukarno Kwame Ture Malcolm X Xi Jinping Malala Yousafzai

The Proletarian's Pocketbook

»Ich bin einer von ungezählten Millionen, die durch Nelson Mandelas Leben inspiriert wurden.« Barack Obama Eine fast drei Jahrzehnte währende Gefängnishaft ließ Nelson Mandela zum Mythos der schwarzen Befreiungsbewegung werden. Kaum ein anderer Politiker unserer Zeit symbolisiert heute in solchem Maße die Friedenshoffnungen der Menschheit und den Gedanken der Aussöhnung aller Rassen wie der ehemalige südafrikanische Präsident und Friedensnobelpreisträger. Auch nach seinem Tod finden seine ungebrochene Charakterstärke und Menschenfreundlichkeit die Bewunderung aller friedenswilligen Menschen auf der Welt. Mandelas Lebensgeschichte ist über die politische Bedeutung hinaus ein spannend zu lesendes, kenntnis- und faktenreiches Dokument menschlicher Entwicklung unter Bedingungen und Fährnissen, vor denen die meisten Menschen innerlich wie äußerlich kapituliert haben dürften.

Autobiographie

Der lange Weg zur Freiheit

On July 26, 1991, Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro spoke together at a rally of tens of thousands in Matanzas, Cuba. This book contains their speeches at that historic event.

South Africa and Cuba in Today's World

How Far We Slaves Have Come!

Le mie fiabe africane

La autobiografía de Nelson Mandela escrita de su puño y letra. La vida un hombre extraordinario, un héroe internacional, uno de los grandes líderes morales y políticos de nuestro tiempo. El largo camino hacia la libertad es la estimulante historia de la vida épica de Nelson Mandela, una historia de adversidades, resistencia y triunfo final narrada con la claridad y elocuencia de un líder nato. Nelson Mandela representa para millones de personas el triunfo de la dignidad y de la esperanza sobre la desesperación y el odio, de la autodisciplina y el amor sobre la persecución y la ignominia. Su extraordinaria vida consagrada a la lucha contra la opresión racial lo hizo merecedor del Premio Nobel de la Paz y lo alzó a la presidencia de su país. Desde su triunfal puesta en libertad en 1990 se convirtió en el centro del acontecimiento político más complejo y alentador de los últimos tiempos. En El largo camino hacia la libertad Nelson Mandela recorre el sendero de su extraordinaria vida. Descubriremos sus primeros pasos como estudiante y pasante en Johannesburgo, el lento despertar de su conciencia política, la ruptura de su primer matrimonio, la dolorosa separación de sus hijos, los veintisiete años que estuvo en prisión -repletos de acontecimientos-, su libertad y la instauración definitiva en Sudáfrica de una democracia multirracial. Una obra magistral destinada a ocupar un lugar de honor entre las memorias de las figuras más importantes de la historia. Las palabras de Mandela: «No nací con hambre de libertad, nací libre en todos los aspectos que me era dado conocer. [...] Solo cuando empecé a comprender que mi libertad infantil era una ilusión, cuando descubrí, siendo joven, que mi libertad ya me había sido arrebatada, fue cuando empecé a añorarla.» «Me gustan los amigos que tienen pensamientos independientes, porque suelen hacerte ver los problemas desde todos los ángulos». «Debemos usar el tiempo sabiamente y darnos cuenta de que siempre es el momento oportuno para hacer las cosas bien». La crítica ha dicho: «Uno de los libros más positivos que leerás.» GQ «Indispensable... La historia de un vida única.» Anthony Sampson «Brilla con la luminosidad de la fe en la invencible naturaleza de la esperanza y la dignidad humanas. Inolvidable...» Andri Brink «Una historia épica de lucha y aprendizaje y crecimiento. Narra la vida de un hombre cuyo idealismo y esperanza inspiraron a un mundo propenso al cinismo. Debería ser una lectura obligada.» Mary Benson, Daily Telegraph «Un trozo de historia reciente y un ejemplo para quienes se ahogan en las pequeñas miserias diarias.» Interviú

La autobiografía de Nelson Mandela

El largo camino hacia la libertad

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Nelson Mandela by himself

Conversations With Myself

The first, and only, authorized and authenticated collection of correspondence spanning the 27 years Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner. While incarcerated in South Africa in four prisons as a sentenced prisoner between 1962 and 1990, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to loved ones, followers, prison authorities, and government officials documenting his plight as the most prominent political prisoner of the twentieth century. Here, the letters--many of them never before seen by the public--have been assembled from the collections held by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the South African National Archives, and the Mandela family, amongst others, together with a foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela, granddaughter of Nelson Mandela. With accompanying facsimiles of some of the actual letters with generous annotations, the book provides a personal and intimate portrait of the lawyer and political activist as husband, parent, friend, and political prisoner, reflecting on everything from the trajectory of the anti-apartheid movement to the death of his beloved son, Thembi, in Cape Town in 1969. Quietly impassioned and (despite occasional heavy censorship) eloquent, they reveal both the extraordinary compassion of a father and the unbending will of a man who refused to compromise his ethical values in the face of the most extraordinary human punishment and psychological abuse. The volume covers every aspect of life behind bars for the future South African leader, whose voice the apartheid government attempted to stifle at every possible opportunity. The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela form a new autobiographical vision. Images throughout

Mandla Langa

El color de la libertad contin�a las memorias que Mandela public� en El largo camino hacia la libertad, relatando sus a�os como presidente. La extraordinaria historia de un pa�s en transici�n y los retos que afront� el premio Nobel de la Paz al luchar por que su visi�n de una Sud�frica liberada se convirtiera en realidad. �He descubierto el secreto de que, tras subir a una colina, uno descubre que hay muchas m�s colinas detr�s. Me he concedido aqu� un momento de reposo, para lanzar una mirada hacia el glorioso panorama que me rodea, para volver la vista atr�s hacia el trecho que he recorrido. Pero solo puedo descansar un instante, ya que la libertad trae consigo responsabilidades y no me atrevo a quedarme rezagado. Mi largo camino a�n no ha terminado.� Nelson Mandela, El largo camino hacia la libertad En 1994, Nelson Mandela se convirti� en el primer presidente democr�tico de Sud�frica. Desde el comienzo, se comprometi� a ocupar el cargo durante una �nica legislatura de cinco a�os. A lo largo de su presidencia, tanto �l como su gobierno garantizaron que todos los ciudadanos sudafricanos fueran iguales ante la ley, y sentaron las bases para que un pa�s desgarrado por siglos de colonialismo y apartheid se convirtiera en una democracia plenamente operativa. El color de la libertad es la historia de los a�os presidenciales de Mandela, una obra basada en gran medida en las memorias que �l empez� a escribir cuando estaba concluyendo su legislatura, pero que no pudo terminar. Ahora, el prestigioso escritor sudafricano Mandla Langa ha completado la labor, utilizando el inacabado borrador de Mandela, las notas detalladas que el presidente fue tomando a medida que se desarrollaban los acontecimientos y una ingente cantidad de material clasificado. Prologado por la viuda de Mandela, Gra�a Machel, el resultado es un relato v�vido y a menudo inspirador de la presidencia de Mandela y de la creaci�n de una nueva democracia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Color of Freedom continues the memoirs that Nelson Mandela published in Long Walk to Freedom. This is the extraordinary story of a country in transition and the challenges that the Nobel prize winner faced while fighting to realize his dream of a free South Africa. The Color of Freedom is the story of Mandela's presidential years, a work based to a large degree on the memoirs that he started to write as his term was ending, but which he never finished. Now, prestigious South African writer Mandla Langa has finished the work, using Mandela's unfinished draft, the detailed notes that the president took while the events were unfolding, and an immense amount of classified information. With a prologue by Mandela's widow, Gra�a Machel, the result is a vivid, often inspiring tale about Mandela's presidency and the creation of a new democracy.

Los Años Presidenciales

El Color de la Libertad

A Little Pocketbook

In the Words of Nelson Mandela

A Long Walk to Freedom Vol 2

A collection of some of the oldest African tales, selected by Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, which presents such themes as cunning animals, magic spells, and people who change forms.

Favorite African Folktales

Nelson Mandela recoge en esta magistral antología los cuentos más bellos y antiguos de África. Es una colección que ofrece un ramillete de entrañables relatos, pequeñas muestras de la valerosa esencia de África, que en muchos casos son también universales por el retrato que hacen de la humanidad, de los animales y de los seres fantásticos.«Está la liebre», observa Mandela en el prólogo, «una pilluela muy ingeniosa; la hiena, que es la perdedora de todas las historias; el león, el jefe de los animales y quien les da regalos; la serpiente, que inspira miedo y a la vez es el símbolo del poder sanador; hay también hechizos que pueden acarrear la desgracia o conceder la libertad...». Todos los cuentos, además, están maravillosamente ilustrados en color por 16 artistas africanos.

Mis cuentos africanos

'I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.' Long Walk to FreedomIn 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of democratic South Africa. Five years later, he stood down. In that time, he and his government wrought the most extraordinary transformation, turning a nation riven by centuries of colonialism and apartheid into a fully functioning democracy in which all South Africa's citizens, black and white, were equal before the law. Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela's presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to finish his term of office, but was unable to finish. Now, the acclaimed South African writer, Mandla Langa, has completed the task using Mandela's unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding and a wealth of previously unseen archival material. With a prologue by Mandela's widow, Gra�a Machel, the result is a vivid and inspirational account of Mandela's presidency, a country in flux and the creation of a new democracy. It tells the extraordinary story of the transition from decades of apartheid rule and the challenges Mandela overcome to make a reality of his cherished vision for a liberated South Africa.

The Presidential Years

Dare Not Linger

The Struggle is My Life

Nelson Mandela

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