Moreover, he has a beautiful voice and does a fine acting job with material which gets very dry for extended periods. However, he puts a a lot of effort into properly pronouncing some difficult names and words in a language most non-Africans can't say at all, much less correctly. Michael Boatman does a very credible South African accent, although it slips away and then comes back at odd intervals. Regardless, it has much to recommend it and I do highly recommend it.
too much to make this an entirely enthralling listening experience.
Some section are virtually just lists of events and who participated. If the material itself were a little more "audio friendly," this would get 5 stars, but there are just way too many hours of names, dates and places. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life - an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his 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.Īfter his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting.both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" ( Washington Post ).
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