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  1. Long Walk to Freedom
    Long Walk to FreedomBook by Nelson Mandela
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  2. Long Walk to Freedom - Wikipedia

    • Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography by South Africa's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, and it was first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co. The book profiles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years spent in prison. Under the apartheid government, Mandela was regarded as a terrorist and jailed o… See more

    Overview

    In the first part of the autobiography, Mandela describes his upbringing as a child and adolescent in South Africa and being … See more

    Reception

    The book won the Alan Paton Award in 1995 and has been published in many languages, including an Afrikaans translation by Antjie Krog. See more

    Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1994
    GenreBiography · Nonfiction · History · Autobiography · Politics · Memoir · Africa · Race · Biography Memoir · South Africa
    Film adaptation

    Long Walk to Freedom has been adapted into a film titled Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom directed by Justin Chadwick, written by William Nicholson, and produced by Anant Singh. Mandela personally awarded th… See more

    Ghost writer and second memoir

    In an obituary of Mandela, The Times of London reported that the latter chapters of Long Walk to Freedom had been "ghosted by a skilful US journalist", and that Mandela had later started work on a second set of memoirs wi… See more

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