Long Walk to Freedom

A deep dive into Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. Rolihlahla, in Xhosa, literally means "pulling the branch of a tree," but its everyday sense is closer to "troublemaker." The child was born on 18 July 1918 at Mvezo, in the Transkei, into the Madiba clan of the Thembu people. His father, chief of Mvezo, was stripped of his post the following year by a white magistrate for refusing to appear before him: the family lost its cattle and its land, and his mother took the boy to Qunu. In 1927 a lung disease carried off his father; the child was nine, and the regent Jongintaba Dalindyebo took him in as his ward at the Great Place of Mqhekezweni. On… Read the full summary and listen to more books on Synopsia: https://synopsia.app