The Shadow Of The Sun: My African Life

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Price : $29.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780140292626
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.233
Publication date : 28 March 2002
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Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In this study, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen as both a whole and as a location, defying generalized explanations, and avoiding the official routes, palaces and big politics. First published in Poland 1998; this translation 2001.

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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.