From Freedom to the Future

Nelson Mandela's speeches are an endureing legacy for South Africans and the world.

This book of selections from Nelson Mandela's speeches provides a lively, memorable profile of his lifelong commitment to freedom and reconciliation, democracy and development, culture and diversity, and the flourishing of all the people of South Africa, Africa and the world.

Arranged thematically, each section of speches is introduced by a leading national or international figure. In these introductory essays, the authors pay tribute to Nelson Mandela's achievments, animating their accounts with personal memories, stories and reflections, but they also creatively confrond the principles at stake in each theme.