https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/media-polskie/Recent content in Media-Polskie on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USSat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/i-had-to-experience-everything-for-myself/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/i-had-to-experience-everything-for-myself/<p>Remembering Ryszard Kapuscinski, who left journalism to carve out a special place in the literary landscape.</p> <p>In 1966 at the height of the Nigerian civil war, an unassuming-looking Polish journalist by the name of Ryszard Kapuscinski set out on a seemingly insane journey. He left the relative safety of Lagos and drove straight into the region of the fiercest fighting, on a road where any traveler could be summarily executed by trigger-happy, machete-wielding guards at any number of improvised roadblocks set up by roaming gangs of both warring parties. “I was driving along a road where they say no white man can come back alive,” Kapuscinski wrote later in his book &ldquo;The Soccer War.&rdquo; “I was driving to see if a white man could, because I had to experience everything for myself.”</p>