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Conversations with myself by nelson mandela author barack obama author of introduction, etc. The book contains four parts each that represent different stages of mandelas life. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or recording troubled dreams on the desk calendar of his cell on robben island. He is the author of the internationally bestselling autobiography long walk to freedom and conversations with myself. Journals kept on the run during the antiapartheid struggle of the early 1960s.
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