Nelson Mandela (The First Names Series)Meet the South African activist and president who fought for what was right in Nelson Mandela, a biography in the First Names series from author Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl and illustrator Nicole Miles. Before he was the first Black president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela (1918 2013) was a boy with a traditional Thembu upbringing. He went on to study law and become involved with African nationalist politics. The government had established an apartheid