TY - BOOK AU - Kapuscinski,Ryszard TI - Heban SN - 8307028191 PY - 2001/// CY - Warszawa PB - Czytelnik KW - Kapuscinski, Ryszard KW - Africa KW - Description and travel N2 - In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles a king cobra to the death and suffers through a bout of malaria ER -