apartheid

Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.

Describes Nelson Mandela's race relations work in South Africa.

A biography of Nelson Mandela, that discusses his childhood, education, involvement with the African National Congress, years spent as a political prisoner, and his rise to president of South Africa.

Chronicles Nelson Mandela's life journey from his early life, education, marriage to Winnie Mandela, and 27 year prison sentence before becoming the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

Provides an introduction to understanding South Africa, covering the history of the country, major themes of the colonial conquests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, racism, segregation and apartheid, forms of repression and resistance, the collapse of apartheid and problems facing the new democratic nation.

Nelson Mandela spent his life winning the battle of apartheid in his homeland of South Africa and the twenty-seven years he spent in prison as punishment for his activism only served to deepen his commitment to that cause.

Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in this book, the author takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. This work lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness.

Text and photographs present the daily lives and family traditions of the people of South Africa, as well as their turbulent history and the legacy of apartheid.