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Here I tell you some facts about my life.

Known as Madiba , I graduated as a lawyer in 1942 after 24 years at the University of


Witwatersrand.

In 1943 , I founded the Youth League , I organized protest demonstrations against the
system of racial segregation ( apartheid ) in 1944 and joined the African National
Congress (ANC ) , a movement of struggle against the oppression of black South
Africans .

In 1964 I was sentenced to life imprisonment and was imprisoned in Robben Island,
off Cape Town, where I spent 17 years in precarious conditions, as well as two other
prisons , where was another 10 years, making a total sentence of 27 years .

After leaving prison, February 11, 1990 , I was elected president of the African
National Congress and headed for negotiations without civil war, a multi-racial
democracy in South Africa.


In 1993 , I got the Nobel Peace Prize for work on reconciliation between blacks and
whites in South Africa, but received more than 250 international awards for four
decades.


The May 10, 1994 was elected the first black president of South Africa to victory in the
first free elections (April 27 ) after the end of apartheid.

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