Pan Macmillan today said that it will publish the sequel to Mandela's best-selling autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" in Britain, South Africa, India and Australasia in 2016. US and Canadian rights have not yet been sold.
The publisher said the Nelson Mandela Foundation has "a substantial but incomplete personally written draft" of the book, written before the statesman died in December 2013 at the age of 95. On the wishes of his widow, Graca Machel, it will be completed by a group of Mandela's former advisers.
Pan Macmillan said the as-yet-untitled book would be "candid and clear-eyed about the difficulties he faced while in office, but also about the fault lines which run through contemporary South Africa."
Editorial director Georgina Morley said it would "remind readers everywhere what he stood for and how it is still possible for his vision and his political philosophy to change not only South Africa but the world."
Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and went on to win the presidency in South Africa's first all-race election in 1994. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with former South African President Frederik W de Klerk, for negotiating the end of white-minority rule.
Mandela stepped down in 1999 to concentrate on charity work.
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