Biography of Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned during the apartheid years and became the elected leader of South Africa after being released.

Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one black, one white--as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier.

Includes historical analysis of some portions of Nelson Mandela's speeches.

PABLO PICASSO: "…when the form is realized, it is there to live its own life." HENRY MOORE: "The sculpture which moves me most is full-blooded and self-supporting, fully in the round; giving out something of an energy and power of great mountains, it has a life of its own independent of the object it represents." African Art Speaks, the first full appraisal of African art published in the United States, describes and illustrates the sculpted works...