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The shadow of the sun - Ryszard Kapuscinsky

Penguin

15-06-2014 by redazione

First of all, we have to mention that Ryszard Kapuscinski is the greatest journalist who ever wrote about Africa and the one who best understood its civilization, nature and philosophy. And it's curious that, being polish, the farthest we can imagine from the black africans, he's the one who, more than other reporters, has travelled around the african continent, describing it like only a few others could do.
Heban talks about this, the so-called «africanization» process, when Africa started being independent after the colonialism, during the first Sixties.
Kapuscinski's eye, war correspondent but able to dwell upon people's soul, magnificence and misery, loneliness and hunger in the villages and the great crowd of the markets, tells the story of an Africa made proud by the freedom found again but with the awareness of depending forever on the Western World.
From this contradiction, a new philosophy originates, a way for matching tradition and ancestral inactivity typical of the Black Continent with the wish and need for a change.
During this journey, Kapuscinski is accompanied by the strong warm, the low and infinite sky, the smile and the hospitality of the people but also the hate among tribes, that unexplainable rage resulting from a story which still has to be completely sounded. 
Kenya and Eastern Africa chapters can't be absolutely missed (Kapuscinski has stopped many years in Dar Es Salaam), among independence stories,  trips on a precarious Land Rover in the middle of savannah, malaria in Uganda and other tales, but it's the whole book to thrill the reader as it offers visions still current and is able to clear concepts that, even for the connoisseurs of Africa, may often appear a little too much abstract.

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