狱中诞生的曼德拉自传

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        曼德拉，南非第一任黑人总统。他使南非摆脱了种族隔离制度成为一个多民族混合的民主国家。为此他付出了长达十数年的牢狱之灾。20世纪70年代中期，在几位狱友的帮助下，身处罗本岛监狱中的曼德拉开始他的自传的写作。
        Hints：
Robben Island
Mac Maharaj
Nelson Mandela
ANC
Ahmed Kathrada
Walter Sisulu
A4
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校对：Ranzzy
翻译&注解：熔雪gemini
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Robben Island, 1975. Four long-term prisoners are secretly collaborating under the watchful eyes of their warders.
We were housed in individual cells on the one corridor. Each cell had a window looking out into the corridor and warders patrolled day and night, looking into your cell to observe what you are doing. Lights were on 24 hours a day.
Mac Maharaj was one of the prisoners trying to conceal his activities from the prison guards. He was working on the first draft of the autobiography of Nelson Mandela along with other ANC activists, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu and of course the man who was later to become South Africa's first black president himself.
Mandela had to write every night and he wrote on average ten to 15 pages. He would give that material the next morning. It would circulate first to me to transcribe.
Where were you getting the paper from to be able to transcribe it?
This was stationery from our study material. We had the rare A4 size paper or lined paper. This is what he wrote on. And he wrote with very little reference material, he wrote by discussion. So the manuscript would circulate from me to Kathrada to Sisulu, and all those comments would come back to me. Mandela and I would avoid going to work, we would stay in undergrounds that we were ill. And we would spend our working time alone in the quadrangle discussing again what he has written. And the next night he would write another ten to 15 pages.罗宾岛监狱，1975年，四个长期囚犯在看守的监视下秘密地进行合作。
我们囚禁于走廊一端的单人囚室里。每个囚室都有一个通向走廊的窗户，看守者昼夜巡视，监视我们的一举一动。每天24小时都开着灯。
一些囚犯试图隐瞒他们背地里的行动，迈克·马哈拉杰是其中之一。他和ANC的其他成员一起完成纳尔逊·曼德拉自传的初稿，这些人包括卡特拉达、西苏鲁、当然还有日后成为南非首位黑人总统的曼德拉本人。
曼德拉每晚都写作，他平均写10~15页。次日早晨他会给我们材料。它会先传到我这儿，由我誊写。
你誊写用的纸是怎么来的呢？
每个人都有学习文具。我们有A4纸，有线的那种纸。曼德拉就用这些纸写作。他写作的时候不是借助参考资料，而是借助讨论结果。手稿从我依次传到卡特拉达和西苏鲁手上，最后所有的反馈都汇聚到我这儿。曼德拉和我都避免劳作，我们会假装生病，然后在四方形的囚室里讨论他的写作内容。接着次日晚上，他又会写10~15页。