Nelson Mandela: Robben Island to Rainbow Nation (Inspirations)

Part of the Inspirations series of short books introducing big characters.

Fairness, equality, leadership and justice had been values instilled in prisoner 46664 from his earliest years among his Xhosa people. Nelson Mandela had been a leading figure in the struggle for change in the apartheid state of South Africa. That is why he was in one of the toughest prisons in the world - Robben Island's maximum security prison, built to house political prisoners, offered no escape route. The treatment was brutal and numbers came before names.

Yet, more than four decades after his imprisonment the name Mandela continues to be an inspiration in the on-going struggle to create a better world.