Nelson Mandela (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Martin Meredit
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1918-1997
- Setting: South Africa
- Principal Characters: Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, F. W. de Klerk, P. W. Botha
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Freedom, Politics, Prisoners, Blacks, Prejudices or antipathies, Ethnic relations, South Africa or South Africans, Apartheid
- Locales: South Africa
Has there ever been another life remotely comparable to that of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela? Born in an obscure village in 1918, Mandela grew up in a country in which color separated people to an extent undreamt of by even the most rabid American segregationist. Although black South Africans have always been a large majority in their own country, the pernicious apartheid system of the formerly white-controlled government excluded them from having the vote and enacted increasingly rigid segregation laws governing almost every aspect of their lives.
After Mandela entered...
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