Reflections in prison

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Title:

Author:

Maharaj, Mac.

ISBN:

9781868723546

9781868723744

9781868723751

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Cape Town, South Africa : Zebra and the Robben Island Museum, 2001.

Physical Description:

xvii, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Robben Island Memories Series No. 4.

General Note:

"This collection of essays provides a unique 'snapshot' of the thinking of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahemd Kathrada and other leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle on the eve of the 1976 Soweto uprising."--p. 4 of cover.

Subject Term:

Political prisoners -- South Africa -- Robben Island -- Biography.

Political prisoners -- South Africa -- Robben Island -- Correspondence.

African National Congress -- History.

African National Congress -- Biography.

Geographic Term:

Robben Island (South Africa) -- History.

Added Author:

Maharaj, Mac.

Copies:

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Summary

In the first three months of 1976, during his imprisonment on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela wrote the bulk of his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. This was an illegal act, and the manuscript had to be smuggled out by fellow prisoner Mac Maharaj on his release that year. Maharaj used the opportunity to ask Mandela and other political prisoners to write essays about South Africa's political future. These were smuggled out with Mandela's autobiography, and are published, 25 years later, in this book.