Nelson Mandela Biography
Nelson Mandela Biography: The Man Who Changed the World Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist who became the country’s first black president. He was born in 1918 in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape. His father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a chief councillor to the monarch; his mother was a homemaker. He attended mission schools before being sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan college. There, he studied English, Latin, history, and geography. In 1939, he began studying law at the University of Witwatersrand. Mandela became involved in politics while still a student and joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944. He rose through the ranks of the organization and became its president in 1952. As president, he led peaceful protests against the white minority government’s policies of racial segregation and discrimination. These protests were met with violence from the government, and Mandela was arrested and imprisoned
