Book description
'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. Ryszard
Kapuscinski was a legendary journalist and writer whose previous books
include ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE, THE EMPEROR: DOWNFALL OF AN AUTOCRAT (which
Salman Rushdie called 'an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally
compassionate book'), SHAH OF SHAHS, IMPERIUM and THE SOCCER WAR.
