Question

Q. 2. What did being free mean to Mandela as a boy,
and as a student? How does he contrast these
'transitory freedoms with the basic and
honourable freedoms'?
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Answer 1

Answer : For Mandela, freedom had different meanings at different stages. As a boy, freedom meant to be able to run freely in the fields and to swim in the stream according to his will. As a student, freedom meant to stay out at nights, read whatever pleased him or go wherever he wanted.

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Answer 2

Answer:

he was free. To him, freedom was doing whatever he wanted to do; to run in the fields near my mother's hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls etc