A review by audreysova
Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela

3.0

I was hoping (and expecting) that this book would have more that would tie it together. Instead the chapters had a theme, and within it there were various elements from Mandela (letters, excerpts from conversations, writings, journal entries, etc). While there were a lot of moments that spoke loudly, there were so many others that I missed because I didn’t have enough context of everything happening at that point in time and who some of the people referenced were. I could see this book being a great complement to reading a history of South Africa or even a more robust biography of Mandela. All that said, I’m glad to have read it, and the audio of conversations with Mandela at the end of the audiobook was a fun surprise treat.