Immer wieder zog es den polnischen Journalisten Ryszard Kapuscinski nach Afrika, zu den Schauplätzen von Staatsgründungen, Putschen und Bürgerkriegen. Mehr als 40 Jahre hat er den Schwarzen Kontinent bereist, die Menschen erforscht und...

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and...

This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'.In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country...

Born in Pinsk, now in Belarus, in 1932, Kapuscinski was the pre-eminent writer among Polish reporters. Kapuscinski's best-known book is just such a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia - The...

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