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Section 1: A Country Childhood - Chapters 1- 8

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Mandela, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Back Bay Books, 1994. Paperback.

-The autobiography opens with a foreword from Bill Clinton.

-After the foreword, but before the first Chapter is a map of South Africa.

Part One - A Country Childhood:

Chapter 1:

- Chapter 1 opens with Nelson's birth on July 1918 in a tiny village in South Africa called Mvezo.

- Nelson's African name is Rolihlahla.

- In Xhosa, this means troublemaker.

- The Great War ends the year that Nelson is born.

- Nelson's father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, is a chief of Mvezo by both blood and custom.

- Nelson and his family are members of the Thembu tribe and the Xhosa people.

- Nelson's father cannot read or write, but he is a respected leader.

- Nelson's father is...

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