If the Whole of Africa… — Book Reissue

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The book If the Whole of Africa… comprises 15 texts from the years 1962–1966, written by Ryszard Kapuściński during his work on the African continent.

“In Africa I was not looking for adventure, I did not hunt elephants, I did not dig for diamonds,” writes Kapuściński in the preface. “I was a correspondent of the Polish Press Agency and I had to write about what I heard or saw there, about what was happening there. And much was happening. I spent nearly six years in Africa in its most turbulent and restless period — full, moreover, of hopes, though sometimes overly easy ones. It was a turning point between two epochs: colonialism was ending, independence was beginning. That change, that upheaval, that revolution — I tried to describe it.”

Stanislaw-Zielinski on kapuscinski.info

If the Whole of Africa… — Book Reissue