Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in the clan of Madiba in July 1918 in South Africa and later became anti-apartheid revolutionary, philanthropist and politician. At the tender age, Mandela grew listening to stories about his renowned ancestors and he dreamt of also making his contribution in the achieving freedom for his people. Mandela views himself as a self, willing, fully responsible human being as he becomes an adult, and he joins student leadership in his quest to advocate the rights of his people.
Nelson Mandela studied at the university college of fort Hare pursuing Bachelor of Arts but was expelled from the institution because of joining a student protest. He acted in what Campbell calls personal nobility rather than what the society believes its discipline. He started to be involved in active politics in the year 1942 and later joined the African National Congress where he helped to form the African National league in 1994.
Mandela and Oliver Tambo South Africa’s first black law firm in South Africa in 1952 but at the end of that year, he was banned and was only permitted to watch in secret. He was arrested and charged for incitement and left the country without a permit and was sentenced to five years in prison and in 1964, he was given a sentence to life imprisonment with five others.
On February 11th, 1990 after 27 years in prison, Mandela was released from prison. He inaugurated as the president of South Africa in 1994; every decision that he made was his chosen course of what he wanted to achieve in life. In 1999, Mandela stepped down after five years as a president after achieving all that he wanted to achieve in politics
Work Cited
Meer, Fatima. Higher Than Hope: The Authorized Biography of Nelson Mandela. New York:
Harper & Row, 1990. Print.
