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    Conversations with Myself
    Conversations with Myself
    Conversations with Myself
    Audiobook10 hours

    Conversations with Myself

    Written by Nelson Mandela

    Narrated by John Kani

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 11, 2010
    ISBN9781427210524
    Conversations with Myself
    Author

    Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on 18 July 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies for many years before being arrested in August 1962. Mandela was incarcerated for over twenty-seven years, during which his reputation as a potent symbol of resistance to the antiapartheid movement grew steadily. Released from prison in 1990, Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994. He is the author of the international bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. He passed away on 5 December 2013, aged ninety-five.

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    • 5/5
      ?? ? I loved it great read i was inspired
    • 4/5
      Very enjoyable.
    • 2/5
      After finishing this book, I feel like I didn't really learn much about Mandela the person. The organization was also a little spotty, and the publishers made it seem like a longer read than it really is by putting images of Mandela's letters after each section (which you don't really have much of a need to read, seeing as you've just read it).

      2/5 for interesting source material direct from Mandela, but marks off for assuming your reader already knows quite a bit about who Mandela really was.
    • 3/5
      Could not finish this one ...
    • 3/5
      Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on 18 July 1918. He is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age, he had now provided an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life.An intimate journey from his life as a politician, and a galvanizing role in the world stage, he fought in the front linees of freedom and justice.