What is the conflict in the Long Walk to Freedom?

The fundamental conflict in Mandela's autobiography is one
that pits him against the policies of apartheid.  This conflict takes on many forms. 
Mandela reflects on a childhood whereby racial inequality compelled him to understand
and grasp the ideas of the African National Congress.  As a politically active
individual, the conflict that Mandela faced is how to advocate non- violence in the face
of growing violence employed by the government.  Mandela spends time in his narrative
exploring how his position of non- violence and active resistance became fundamentally
altered after actions such as the massacre at Sharpeville as well as state imposed
"Emergencies," which served as nothing more than pretense for increased governmental
repression.  Finally, Mandela speaks of how the basic conflict in his life is against a
system where there can be no justice if there is racial division and separation of the
races.  In this, Mandela understood his role as a symbol of the freedom movement while
incarcerated and his release represented his efforts to try to bridge differences
between the White establishment and the growing Black majority who sought to have an
active role in political, economic, and social affairs.  In this last conflict,
Mandela's commitment to a transcendent concept of equality and inclusion in a mutable
world of contingency is most evident.