Stephen Robinson

Writing behind bars

As his prison letters reveal, Mandela, a martyr to dry skin, suffered because only the inferior Vaseline was available on Robben Island

  • The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

    Sahm Venter (ed.)

    W.W. Norton & Company, pp. 640

  • Mandela: His Essential Life

    Peter Hain

    Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 211

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