Born into royalty, Rolihlahla, or Buti as he was called as a child,

Author/Illustrator: Floyd Cooper
Format: Paperback
Published: Penguin Books, 1996

Born into royalty, Rolihlahla, or Buti as he was called as a child, was to become leader after his father, but hardships, strong convictions and unconventional ideas led Buti, (renamed Nelson by an English schoolteacher) to the apartheid-ruled Johannesburg. Eventually jailed for attempting to overthrow the government, Mandela, after 27 years in prison, was released and became the first black president in post-apartheid South Africa. Dreamlike, emotional art accompanies the well-written biography.