Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela Audiobook (Free)

The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela’s life through the eyes of the grandson who was simply raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela’s life living with, and learning from, one of the biggest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.

To all of those other world, Nelson Mandela was a giant: an anti-apartheid groundbreaking, a world-renowned humanitarian, and South Africa’s first black leader. To Ndaba Mandela, he was merely ‘Granddad.’ In Going to the Hill, Ndaba tells how he about Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela found live with Mandela shortly after he turned eleven–having met each other only once, years before, when Mandela was imprisoned at Victor Verster Prison–and how the two of these slowly, cautiously built a romantic relationship that would affect both their lives in outstanding ways.

It wasn’t a straightforward transition. Mandela experienced high expectations for all those around him, especially his family members, and Ndaba chafed on the rigid guidelines and exacting recommendations in his grandfather’s home. But at the same time–through overheard calls from international dignitaries aswell as the Xhosa folk intelligence that his grandfather shared with him at every opportunity–Ndaba was learning how to be a guy. On a range both personal and epic, Ndaba’s amazing journey mirrors that of South Africa’s arriving of age–from the segregated Soweto ghettos into which he was created to the privileged life where he was raised as well as the turbulent yet exciting times in which he carries on his grandfather’s legacy.

Going to the Mountain is, in the long run, a story about unlocking the energy within each of us. It’s a cautionary story about how exactly a child’s lifestyle can go a proven way or the additional, depending upon the intervention of the caring soul–and about the awesome power of love to provide as a catalyst for alter.