Short description
Albert Luthuli is one of South Africa's most admired political leaders, comparable in moral stature and international acclaim to Nelson Mandela.
Long description
Albert Luthuli is one of South Africa's most admired political leaders, comparable in moral stature and international acclaim to Nelson Mandela. In 1960, Dr Luthuli was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first South African ever. Grandson of a Chief, he was a school teacher before he in turn became Chief and eventually president of the ANC. In Let my people go he tells his own story, which is also the story of the ANC, from the Defiance Campaign, the drawing up of the Freedom Charter and the Treason Trial to the Alexandra bus boycott and the 1959 potato boycott up to the tragedies of Sharpeville, Langa and Nyanga.