Long Walk to Freedom

Resumen del libro

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

Biografía del autor

Nelson Mandela (Qunu, Sudáfrica, 1918-Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica 2013), Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1993, es la voz más representativa de África en el mundo. Por su lucha contra el apartheid, pasó 26 años en una cárcel de máxima seguridad. En 1994 fue elegido Presidente de la República de Sudáfrica. En 1999 abandonó la vida política.