Part 2 of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography to be published in 2015

The second part of former South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography will be published next year.

The best selling autobiography, “The Long Walk to Freedom,” depicts Mandela’s eventful life until he became the first black president of South Africa. Mandela spent 27 years in prison for his role as the leader of the anti-apartheid campaign.

Apartheid was a brutal and racist system implemented by the minority white regime and was responsible for the scores of displacements, imprisonment and deaths of black South Africans

The sequel titled “The Presidential Years” is mainly about his five-year presidency, which began in 1994 and ended in 1999.

According to officials, the Nelson Mandela Foundation owns the 10-chapter manuscript. The document begins with the passage that “Men and women, all over the world, right down the centuries, come and go.”

The manuscript also shows Mandela was worried that people thought of him as a saint. He said that was a false image. An editor of the autobiography says he hopes the book will allow people to look at Mandela’s life and achievements objectively.

Nelson Mandela died in 2013.

Source: Agencies