If you have read Long Walk to Freedom then you’ll know the story ends in 1994, just when Mandela became president, leaving everyone hanging. Well, the long wait is over: there’s a sequel coming!

Pac Macmillian will be publishing the new book using a “little-known, unfinished manuscript handwritten by ‘Mandiba’ himself”. According to The Guardian, Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel, “showed the nearly 230 000-word manuscript to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which organized a committee to edit the book, led by South African politician and analyst Tony Trew”.

The new book will tell the story of the man “who was tasked with creating a post-apartheid multicultural democracy amid a burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis, the dissolution of his marriage to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and the social acrimony exposed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission”. Rumour has it the book will also give detail on how Mandela wanted Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed him and not Thabo Mbeki.

If it is anything as good as the first book (which was co-penned by Richard Stengel, who is now Obama’s Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs) then we should expect a movie in the next few years.

The sequel should be ready in 2016.

[Source: Time]