Summer Progress Book Report: A Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela

Summer Progress
Book Report: A long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
This book “A long Walk to Freedom” is an autobiography written by Nelson Mandela when he
was in the prison. This book highlights the key moments of Nelson Mandela’s life and his
endeavor as the greatest freedom fighter of the 20th century. Nelson Mandela’s amazing and
heroic life not only that inspires, but also it educates because the terms “dignity” and “integrity”
are unfamiliar to some people. I personally learned a lot of things from this book.
Nelson Mandela was born in Rolihlahla Mandela on July 18,1918, in the tiny village of Mvezo in
South Africa. He was a nonviolence anti-apartheid activist, politician and philanthropist who
became South Africa’s first black president from 1994 to 1999. Becoming actively involved in
the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s. He joined the African National Congress in 1942. In the
beginning of all this, he spends 27 years in prison for political offenses. His goal is to transform
the ANC into a mass grassroots movement, deriving strength from millions of rural peasants and
working people who had no voice under the current regime. He founded the law firm Mandela
and Tambo, partnering with Oliver Tambo, a brilliant student he met while attending Fort Hare.
The law provided free and low-cost legal counsel to unrepresented blacks. But in 1956, Mandela
and 150 others were arrested and charged with treason for their political advocacy. Meanwhile,
the ANC was being challenged by Africanists, a new breed of black activist who believed that
the method of ANC was ineffective. Consequently, the movement had lost much of its militant
support. Moreover, Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on Robben Island for 18 to 27 years in
prison. During this time, he contracted as a black political prisoner, received the lowest level of
treatment from prison workers.
Coming to his family, he was married three times and had six children. After his father death, 12
years old Nelson was brought to tomomaraki to be raised by the king regions. Living among the
royal family expose the Mandela as a powerful example of black leadership and remained an
influence through his life. Therefore, Mandela attained his secondary education from a reputed
institution then he enrolled at the Methodist college in Fort Beaufort in 1937. Mandela then
attended the university of Witwatersrand and studied law. But due to his
involvement in the Student Representative Council and his boycotting against the
university policies, so later he was told to leave. But in his school, there was a
frequent target of racism. But soon he immense himself in the world of politics and
in 1944, he joined African National Congress and an entire political party fought to
franchise and empower the black population living under the oppressive wide
authority. With the National party rise to power in 1948 Mandela was appointed
the position of a secretary at the ANC. Infact, he was also appointed national
president of ANC Youth league in 1950. By this time, he continued his fight against
racism in July 1952. Later, State President Frederick William de Klerk lifted the ban
on the African National Congress and announced the release of Nelson Mandela
from the prison on February 2, 1990. In 1944, South Africa held its first
democratic elections. Nelson Mandela was then elected as a first Black President.
Therefore, his main aim was to kill racism and he ended the apartheid rule and
establish a new condition. But after his first term Mandela declined to contest for
the second term and retired from the active politics.
In Conclusion, he founded the Mandela Foundation and served as a mediator in the
Burundi civil war. Moreover, he also got the noble prize in 1993 but in 2013 he
died due to respiratory infection at the age of 95. But he stills stands as a founder
of his nation an international symbol of equality, dignity, and justice.
Book Report Written by Adeena Farooq

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