The Shadow of the Sun
My African Life
Ryszard Kapuscinski author Klara Glowczewska translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:28th Mar '02
Should be back in stock very soon
'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft.
ISBN: 9780140292626
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 15mm
Weight: 234g
336 pages