https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/relevance/Recent content in Relevance on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USSat, 15 Aug 2026 08:02:50 +0200https://kapuscinski.info/en/is-kapuscinski-still-relevant/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/is-kapuscinski-still-relevant/<p>Ryszard Kapuściński described above all the twentieth century: the decolonisation of Africa, the revolutions of the Third World, dictatorships, civil wars, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the shifts in the global order. One may therefore ask whether his work is still relevant. The world he wrote about has, in many respects, receded into the past. The media, the pace of information, the balance of power, the language of politics and postcolonial awareness are all different. And yet Kapuściński&rsquo;s books endure because they are not merely records of events. Their main subjects are recurring mechanisms: power, fear, propaganda, war, inequality, the encounter with the Other and the responsibility of the witness.</p>