Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom, autobiography by Nelson Mandela published in 1994. It recounts the life and struggle of Mandela, the Black nationalist leader who for most of his adult life fought against the racially discriminatory apartheid policies of South Africa’s white minority-led government before leading efforts to bring about a peaceful transition to nonracial democracy and becoming the country’s first Black president in 1994. Long Walk to Freedom begins with Mandela’s recollections of his childhood...