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Mandela:
The Authorised Biography
by Anthony Sampson
HarperCollins, pounds 24.99, 500 pp
ANTHONY SAMPSON is uniquely placed to have written a biography of
Nelson Mandela. As editor of Drum Magazine in the Fifties he was
closely connected to Johannesburg and the rising generation of
journalists, musicians and politicians of which Mandela was a part.
Through a long and distinguished career, he has maintained a close
surveillance of South Africa, enjoying easy access to the great and
the good. His roll-call of interviewees and friends at the beginning
of this book is so long that anyone excluded ...
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