Nelson Mandela’s speech was made at the beginning of his trial in the Supreme court of South Africa on April 20th 1964. He was trying to convince the court of his complete innocence. His speech was a plea to the court for them to understand the acts of ANC and how they had come to a conclusion of using violence as the only way to end the white power struggle that was upon them. It explains how they were forced into using violence in the end because the government had banned every single other form of protest and non-violent attack.
Mandela spent 27 years in prison from 1962 to 1990 when he was finally released. He then rose to power as President of South Africa in 1994, lasting 5 years until 1999 when he stepped down from his position.
The key contemporary media’s around at the time of the speech were: The early 60’s saw the jazz saxophone as a very popular instrument in their most common music genres of Jive and Folk. But moving into the later 60’s there was an uprise of Soul and Jazz music seeping in from American inspirations.
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