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Nelson Mandela inspires me because he stood up for what he believed in and his human rights. He is a person I would admire because he spoke on behalf of all the people In colour that were being discriminated.

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Nelson Mandela, considered by many as a revolutionary leader, helped organize the fight against racism and apartheid in South Africa.  Mandela witnessed leadership at a young age when observing his guardian supervising tribal decision-making gatherings. Mandela’s guardian listened in silence for days, never voicing his opinion even after everyone’s opinion was heard. After everyone had spoken, his guardian guided the group to reach a consensus. Later, Mandela used this experience to mold his leadership style

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If there is one person who absolutely justifies the word “leadership” then it is none other than Madiba a.k.a Nelson Mandela. Mandela is the rarest of leaders: A person whose influence and moral sway transcends the cause he is most associated with — in his case, the horrific apartheid in South Africa, under which he suffered and was imprisoned for a heart-breaking 27 years. However, since the abolition of that frightful regime and practice, and since the great man’s release in 1990, Mandela has become just about every thinking person’s idea of a true leader. He is the ultimate example of a statesman — a man whose personal qualities (a quiet manner and temperance of utterance, a sense of equanimity and an always graceful bearing) make him a icon of integrity and honour far beyond the bounds of his own country.

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Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo, where his father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa served as chief. His mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakanyiswa’s four wives, who together bore him nine daughters and four sons. After the death of his father in 1927, 9-year-old Mandela—then known by his birth name, Rolihlahla—was adopted by Jongintaba Dalindyebo, a high-ranking Thembu regent who began grooming his young ward for a role within the tribal leadership.

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The first in his family to receive a formal education, Mandela completed his primary studies at a local missionary school. There, a teacher dubbed him Nelson as part of a common practice of giving African students English names. He went on to attend the Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Healdtown, a Methodist secondary school, where he excelled in boxing and track as well as academics. In 1939 Mandela entered the elite University of Fort Hare, the only Western-style higher learning institute for South African blacks at the time. The following year, he and several other students, including his friend and future business partner Oliver Tambo (1917-1993), were sent home for participating in a boycott against university policies.

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In 1962, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison.