Nelson Mandela's presidential memoir, Dare Not Linger, due in autumn
Source: The Guardian
Friday 10 March 2017 14.45 GMT
The story of Africa’s greatest modern statesman, Nelson Mandela, will gain another chapter this autumn, with the publication of Dare Not Linger.
Following on from Long Walk to Freedom, the inspiring account of his early life and time in prison that was made into a feature film starring Idris Elba, the book will chart Mandela’s time as South Africa’s first black president from 1994 to 1999.
Mandela began working on the manuscript at the end of his presidency, but the first draft was still unfinished on his death in 2013. Fragments from the manuscript featured alongside snippets from diaries, calendars and letters in 2010’s Conversations With Myself. But now the South African poet and novelist Mandla Langa has finished the task, knitting Mandela’s account together with archival material into one coherent narrative.
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“It’s the closest that you will ever get to a true autobiographical sequel to Long Walk to Freedom,” Morley said. “Because Mandela did not finish the book he wanted to write. It’s a combination of third and first-person material, woven together into a coherent narrative.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/10/nelson-mandelas-presidential-memoir-dare-not-linger-due-in-autumn
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