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

The Shadow of the Sun cover

'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