He also did military training in Ethiopia, and learned from Algeria's successful efforts to oust French colonialists in a long, bloody war.
In 1962 he traveled to Tanzania, Egypt, Tunisia, London, Morocco and the new states of West Africa to raise money and awareness about Umkhonto We Sizwe, or MK - the armed wing of the ANC. This study shows that he played a key role in the decision to embark on sabotage campaigns against the South African government and military targets after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 (where 69 people protesting pass laws, many of them black, were shot by police). But Mandela was a product of the ANC, and that includes its legacy of mass protest and armed struggle. There is a tendency to set Mandela apart from the social or political movements that shaped him or to emphasize the mostly nonviolent aspects of the struggles against colonialism and apartheid. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have tried not to falter I have made missteps along the way. Mandela ends the book: "I have walked that long road to freedom. Mandela emerges as a remarkable individual as the book charts his regal upbringing, career as a young lawyer, troubled marriages, long imprisonment, relationship with his fellow inmates and jailers, release, leading negotiations against the apartheid state, transforming the ANC into a modern political party, and finally his election in 1994 as South Africa's first black, democratically elected president.
First published in 1995 by the American publisher Little, Brown and ghost-written by Richard Stengel (later a chief editor at Time ) and overseen by an "editorial board" of ANC leaders, this book was written with a global, mainly U.S., readership in mind. Billed as "the autobiography" of Mandela, it is probably the most accessible book on his life.
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