Description
| Product ID: | 9780140292626 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Shadow of the Sun |
| Subtitle: | My African Life |
| Authors: | Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara Glowczewska |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, African history, History, African history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Africa |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Creates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practices we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination. ''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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-03-28 |