His Prison Time

The publisher expects to issue a volume of selected correspondence in 2018, with a fuller two-volume set to follow. See one of the letters here.

Free Nelson Mandela Free Nelson Mandela was a song not just for personal freedom but for the freedom of a nation But a free Mandela was to mean a free South Africa.

Koto Bolofo's photographic study of the Robben Island prison that once held Nelson Mandela.

“Prison is itself a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is, above all, a test of one's commitment…”

Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison on Robben Island. These days, it’s a tourist attraction. DW’s Ludger Schadomsky visited the island and Mandela’s famous cell #5 – he also met Mandela critics there.

Conditions are so bad inside Cape Town's Pollsmoor Prison that even officials are calling it "inhumane."

About Nelson mandela's time spent in prison and how he made it through.

Branded as a "terrorist" Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life in prison but continued to work for peace.

On this day in History, Nelson Mandela released from prison on Feb 11, 1990. Learn more about what happened today on History.

RIP Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela’s prison letters will be published in a volume by Liveright, the publisher announced Wednesday.

On June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela received a life sentence for committing sabotage against South Africa’s apartheid government.

The low, scrubby oval of Robben Island, a few miles offshore, can be made out from any of the heights around Cape Town. During the  apartheid era, it was a kind of Purgatory in plain sight for those the white regime feared most, a place forbidden to all but the inmates and their jailers.

"The government offered to release Mandela in 1976 if he would go into exile and shun politics. He rejected the offer."

If you remember seeing media coverage of Nelson Mandela having died in prison in the 1980s, and you’re wondering why he’s just this month been reported dead again, you’re in good company.

Veteran anti-apartheid campaigner walks free from a South African prison more than a quarter of a century after being jailed for life alongside fellow ANC leaders.

Nelson Mandela's vision was rooted in his ideals, and his actions were shaped by reality, author Sylvester Monroe says.

His 27 years behind bars were filled with hardship. But it wasn't all tedium. There were drives around Cape Town, negotiations in the homes of government ministers, and aborted escape plots.

Nelson Mandela's prison numbers timeline.

Mike Wooldridge looks back at how 27 years in prison affected the politics and personality of Nelson Mandela.

Mandela's life's method was forged on Robben Island, from which he emerged the mediator, philosopher and president-in-waiting.