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Nelson Mandela Short Biography The OpenBook
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Classroom learning is not only enough for kids, Here TheOpenBook providing printable and online worksheets to help younger kids to learn their alphabets, numbers, shapes, colors and other basic skills. For more info visit our website: http://theopenbook.in/ • • Subscribe to our Channel : / theopenbook • Facebook : / theopenbookedu • Subscribe : / theopenbook • Add Us on Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/108040655... • Twitter : / thenewopenbook • blogger : https://smartedukids.blogspot.in/ • Biography of Nelson Mandela • • Nelson Mandela was born on July 18th 1918. • • His father was a tribal chief who lost his name and fortune as a result Mandela had to move to a new place. • • At the suggestion of one of his father’s friends he was baptized in the Methodist church and was the first in the family to attend school. • • It was at school that his teacher gave him the new name of Nelson Mandela his earlier name being Rolihlahla Mandela. • • He lost his father when he was only nine years old and life changed dramatically again for him. • • He was adopted by the regent of the Thembu people as a favour to Mandela’s father who was responsible for him being elected chief. • • He was treated on par with the chief’s two children and soon Mandela started taking classes in English, history and Geography. • • This is when he learnt about African history and that the peace which dwelled there was shaken by the arrival of the whites and their colonization. • • At the age of sixteen he was ready for manhood and partook in all the rituals associated with it among the Africans. • • He was upset when the main speaker at the event spoke sadly about how the Africans were living as slaves in their own land. • • At that time though Mandela did not understand the significance of the chief’s words in later years he recalled it when he fought for the freedom of his people. • • He excelled at academics and went into the prestigious college of Fort Hare considered to be the Harvard of Africa. • • He took a course to prepare him for the civil services and soon found him elected as a student representative. The demands of the students were not met and he resigned his post. This was considered insubordination by the authorities and expelled with the condition he would be taken back provided he agreed to take up the post again. • • He went home and earned the wrath of his father who instructed him to go back in fall that year. At the same time the father decided to get him married so he would settle down but instead Mandela ran away from home. • • He moved to Johannesburg and continued his degree through correspondence. He also enrolled for a law course. • • In 1942 he joined the African national Congress and formed a group within it called the African National Youth League . • • The goal of this movement was turn into a mass movement and do so by strikes, boycott, and civil disobedience and non- cooperation. • • For twenty years he headed this movement and in 1956 he with 150 others were arrested and charged with treason. • • A breakaway group called the pan Africanists came up and the Parent body soon lost importance. • • Nelson Mandela was sent to prison in1962 and remained there till 1990 and during this time he lost faith in the non-violent methods he had advocated. He earned his law degree there and even initiated a number of movements against apartheid. • • Soon a clamour among world leaders to release him came up and the African government even tried to kill him in an encounter but that was foiled. • • He was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for his efforts against apartheid and was considered an important political entity till his death in 2013. #theopenbook #Education #Educationalvideos #Studyiq #learn #Cbse #icse #ssc #generalknowledge
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