Nelson Mandela: Voice of Freedom

From a thatched hut in the middle of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was schooled by missionaries and raised by his uncle. He skipped rocks in river streams and ran away to Johannesburg to work in the mines before going to law school.Trouble by apartheid and injustice, Mandela became a leader in the African National Congress until the government arrested him. He was imprisoned for 27 ½ years. After his release in 1990, he helped write a new constitution and was elected President of South Africa.The author traced the Mandela journey.