{"product_id":"mandela-4","title":"Mandela","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of Nelson Mandela written by an African scholar, t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehis groundbreaking book offers a radically de-mythologized take on a global\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e icon of anticolonial liberation struggles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading sociologist Xolela Mangcu draws on original interviews and archival research – as well as on his own unique understanding of the complexities of Black South African culture – to offer an important corrective account of Mandela’s identity, character, and political career. Mangcu not only sets the record straight about Mandela's Thembu, rather than Xhosa, heritage, but also uncovers a fundamental political pragmatism Mandela developed thanks to his family’s strategic alliances with colonialists and through his own Victorian-style education at leading British mission schools. What emerges is a Mandela whose life story belongs less to the realm of hagiography and more to the realm of real-world struggle, with all the contradictions it entails.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260672352600,"sku":"9781350522121","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350522121.jpg?v=1781593260","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mandela-4","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}