Nelson Mandela: in His Own Words

Ebony, Feb, 2005

--NELSON MANDELA: IN HIS OWN WORDS (Little Brown, revised edition, $17.95), with forewords by President Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, is a collection of speeches by Mandela from the eve of his imprisonment in South Africa to his release 27 years later, from his acceptance of the Nobel peace prize to his election as South Africa's first Black president.