In English, the word “invictus” means undefeated. This book’s main goal was to show how unity is undefeated. John Carlin’s book Invictus details the story of Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid rule. More interestingly, this book explains how he used rugby to win the fight. Apartheid rule was the separation of people by race in South Africa. This prevented a lot of the black population in South Africa from having the same opportunities as the white people. Black South Africans were not getting fair job opportunities or proper education. There was a man that saw these problems, however, and wanted to fix the problems by unifying the races. Nelson Mandela was an activist against apartheid rule. In 1962, he was arrested for inspiring the
