Explain the sentence "i was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free- free in every way that i could know." from the text 'Nelson mandela long walk to freedom'.

It means that mandela did not have the desire to be free. As a child, he thought that he was free because freedom to him meant being free to swim in stream, run in fields ec. But when he grew old, he understood the basic standards of freedom and then, he started to desire for it.