Publisher's Synopsis
A. AZARIA MBATHA Style/Genre/Characterization: BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEMPORARY NOVEL (HARDSHIP- FORGIVENESS) This enigmatic and unforgettable novel, LongWalk Freedom, with its sense of spiritual anguish, its deep rousing of faith, and its sure response to the movements of the human mind, expresses the puzzle of Man and his Destiny, the contrasting aspects of Man's fundamental drama, and the cry of humanity in its death-throes. Through this suffering, hardship and pain, LongWalk Freedom shows the world the uniqueness of Man on this planet and highlights the message: 'LOVE ONE OTHER!' Two of the main characters are LongWalk Freedom (LongWalk=name and Freedom = Surname motivated by the title of the Book "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela. Behind these words, there is this Mr X and a biographical contemporary novel where biography meets history is about a man and this man is Mr X. Who is this Mr. X? Mr. X is 'LongWalk Freedom.' The second character in this story is about Mumbasatha. What is the significance of these two figures? LongWalk Freedom has gone beyond that usual consensus and move out ahead of their followers to break new soil. LongWalk's life has inspired me to search what might be hidden behind his personality. Though we knew his name since our boyish days, which government forbade us even to mention his name. Now, I can shout higher and higher and nothing happens: Nelson! Nelson Mandela! You see, nothing happened. Mumbasatha is a model of good democratic way of life. When Mumbasatha dies, his spirit did not die but got place to live with LongWalk Freedom. Each of us is unique: We are not like somebody else. There will be no other LongWalk Freedom. We do not expect it to happen. But there are many talents out there that will continue where LongWalk Freedom ended. The World needs creative leaders, but not near-gods, because that would not be democracy. A Contemporary Biographical Novel of Hardship & Forgiveness. The author asks questions: What price do we pay by keeping some people and all political prisoners behind bars? We cannot rightly answer this question in an acceptable or fair way without first asking what price was paid by the prisoners (who spent all their active lives in prison) and their families for doing what they, you and I believed was (is) right; taking action to save the whole world from being swept away in the bloody swirl of the poweful dirty dam while breaking. Some of these people were of course expressing the feelings of all humanity. New way of seeing the world and therefore we call this book: a Contemporary Biographical Novel. The problem of an agency is the problem of finding a way of accounting for human experience that recognises simultaneously and in equal measure that history constant that makes societies and almost purposeful individual action and that individual action, however purposeful, is made by history and society. In a series of stories, Author explores how the government subverts the notion of reform, making things better in one section, while causing suffering in another. LongWalk tackled inhumane laws where laws caused great sufferings to alienate, hopeless and powerless people. When those who hated his resistance struggle ideas against the government later called him Barabbas, how did his people see him? Let us follow his long a dramatic journey in a different way never before told in a contemporary novel. The rivetting memories of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time. The contemporary biographical novel re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape LongWalk Freedom's destiny. It should be somewhere here surely? Shouldn't it? Yes, here is the Island....and what is his message, this LongWalk Freedom of yours? Love one another... And then he gave up the ghost. ****
