Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Book Time: The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
I just finished The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski. He was the Africa reporter for the Polish state news service for several decades. It's Africa from very close up; the book isn't so interested in the politics of Africa as it is the daily lives of Africans, and how different the expectations about life are from the Western experience. His prose is so tight and the subject so novel that you want to quote it to people as you read it. Recommended. (Thanks to Marcel for suggesting it.)
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i absolutely loved the book. though there was one hitch:
in the book, Ryzard refers to the intellectual 'Ali Mazrui' as 'Ugandan'. He is not Ugandan. He is Kenyan. To be specific from the Coastal Province of Kenya. I say this because:
1. i'm kenyan
2. i'm from the coast of kenya
... and more importantly
3. i am a distant relative of Ali Mazrui.
If someone can get this message through to the publisher it would be awesome!
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