When I was first given this book, I thought, ‘Here’s another one of those boring books on famous people’. You get a lot of books like this one and they all look the same and are written in the same sort of way. This book on Archbishop Tutu is different though. It’s written with so much enthusiasm. It caught me like one of the novels I like to read. It took me by great surprise, the way I enjoyed reading it.
There are a few things about it that make it different from other books. For instance, at the beginning of some books on famous people, it starts off by saying, ‘He was born in … etc.†But this book is not like that at all. It even has a mini dictionary at the back, as well as questions about the story.
In this book it tells you all you need to know about his life and family and it tells you all about how he tried to stop the government from being cruel to black South Africans. In the actual book it has way more information and details about his life, but I’m just telling you little bits about it. He grew up, married a woman named Leah, had children and then was offered a job in London, where he spent about five years. He was then offered another job in South Africa again, so they moved back. A while later, he became very well-known and he was liked by many — as well as disliked by many, especially the white government.
He became Archbishop and did wonderful things for others. Later on in the story, he becomes part of a group called the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
If you want to know the rest, then you should read this book. You would definitely enjoy reading it, as well as looking at all the pictures. Desmond Tutu is a very interesting South African!