The shadow of the sun

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Sinopse

'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.

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Autor: Ryszard Kapuscinski

Autor

RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

Ryszard Kapuscinski nasceu em 1932, em Pinsk, então pertencente à Polônia e hoje território da Belarus. Trabalhou durante quarenta anos para a PAP, agência de notícias polonesa, como correspondente estrangeiro na África e na América Latina. Realizou matérias sobre 27 revoluções, golpes de Estado e insurreições diversas. Kapuscinski morreu em 2007, em Varsóvia.