No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood & coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. He examines his reactions on being able to vote for the first time at the age of 62
- & on Nelson Mandelas election also his feelings on being Archbishop of Cape Town & his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. No Future Without Forgiveness is also his fascinating experience as head of South Africas Truth & Reconciliation Commission. The latter was a pioneering international experiment to expose many of the worst atrocities committed under apartheid & to rehabilitate the dignity of its victims. Tutu draws important parallels between the Commissioners approach to the situation in South Africa with other areas of conflict such as Northern Ireland the Middle East Rwanda & the Balkans.