Currently Reading Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

Freee Nelson Mandela...this is my first true memory of wanting to learn about this powerfully humble man. The song by Elvis Costello made me want to learn about Nelson and the country he lived in more then any sped over history lesson about the African continent. Since that very song i have been on a search about this great man and his people, possibly my very own people. NO NO NO i am not saying i am connected to Mr. Mandela in any way. I simply mean by way of the diaspora...not anyone that i know personally can link his or her path directly to there very own family in Africa. Yet, as we all know that is where the Black African American comes from. So my journey to Nelson is only by way of books and movies and anything and any way i could learn about Africa. This autobiography is so beautifully spoken that i feel like his intent was for me the reader to feel like we were simply to friends sitting together, one speaking the life and times of someone they used to be, a country that used to behave in a slighty different way and how the struggle to tear down apartheid and it's ills was not only a fight and struggle but a way of life. He was the struggle as well as it's triumph. I love this book. I will now pull up my chair and listen intently to the rest of the story. Soon...