CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF

454pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Johannesburg, 2018

First published in New Zealand in 2010.

Foreword by Barack Obama.

A collection of letters, diary entries and other writings, including transcripts from 50 hours of recordings by Richard Stengel.

"Intensely moving, raw and unmediated, told in real time with all the changes in perspective that brings, over the years, mixing the prosaic with the momentous. Health concerns, dreams, political initiatives spill out together, to provide the fullest picture yet of Mandela." Peter Godwin, Observer

“Outstanding for what it offers. . . Its collection of letters and meditations, together with its thorough index and appendix, belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the nature of power and resistance.” J.M. Ledgard, The New York Times Review of Books

Nelson Mandela was born in the Transkei in 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944, was arrested in August 1962 and incarcerated for over twenty-seven years. Released from prison in 1990, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and became the first democratically elected President of South Africa in 1994. He died in December 2013.