Summary
Ryszard Kapuściński: Another Day of Life
The book is an autobiographical account of Kapuściński's three-month stay in Angola after the country gained independence from Portugal and immediately plunged into a brutal civil war.
The book depicts the chaos of the capital city of Luanda, as Portuguese settlers evacuated the city en masse, leaving it in a state of apocalyptic chaos. Against the advice of others, Kapuściński decides to travel to the southern front lines, where the conflict is a "messy, persistent and cruel" proxy war involving global powers such as Cuba and South Africa.
The book is peppered with telex correspondence with his news agency, highlighting the difficulties of reporting in such an unstable environment.
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