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A moving portrait of Africa from the mid-twentieth century to the present descrbies the end of colonial rule, the early years of independence, the violent disintegration of such nations as Nigeria and Rwanda, and the social and political developments that transformed the continent, especially in the wake of the arrival of AIDS and the departure of white culture. 20,000 first printing.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932. After graduating with a degree in history from Warsaw University, he was sent to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to report for the Polish news, which began his lifelong fascination with the Third World. During his four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa, he befriended Che Guevara, Salvador Allende, and Patrice Lumumba; witnessed twenty-seven coups and revolutions; and was sentenced to death four times.
His earlier books—Shah of Shahs (about the Iranian Revolution), The Emperor (about the fall of Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie), Imperium (about the fall of the Soviet Union), Another Day of Life (about the last days of Portuguese Angola), and
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