


He describes his attempts to gain an education, mostly at missionary schools. The son of a local chief, Mandela recalls passing time playing childhood games and listening to his parents’ stories. In Part One: A Country Childhood, Mandela describes his birth in 1918 and his childhood in the Transkei of South Africa. In his memoir, Long Walk to Freedom, South African freedom fighter and author Nelson Mandela describes his trajectory from a Xhosa boy in a small village in the Transkei, to a revolutionary anti-apartheid resistance fighter, to a political prisoner held for 27 years in prison, and finally to South Africa’s first black President. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla.
