Another Day of Life

Compelling observational journalism that conveys the chaos of civil war in a new nation. The Portuguese built a cities of crates and emptied the land with the wealth they had stolen from it, the South Africans waded in and even though some form of socialist movement headed by the poet and rebel Agustinho Neto survived with the aid of the Cubans, sadly this is the story of another country hamstrung from day one. The brilliance of Kapuscinski's writing and grasp of character shows how poorly our current righteous media covers the news.

A journalists account of the Portuguese pullout from Angola in the mid-1970's and the trials and tribulations in reporting it. Robert Kaplan must have read alot of Kapuscinsky. Kaplan's early books are very similar.

Nice insight into the revolt in the Portuguese colonies. I was in Lisbon in May 1975 when Portugal was in flux....hence, meaningful.

Notes from the war in Angola. Pressing stuff, and reads as though the battle was only yesterday.

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Another Day of Life is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of the three months he spent in Angola at the beginning of its decades' long civil war. The capital, Luanda, is occupied only by those not fortunate enough to flee. When even the dogs abandoned by the Europeans leave, Kapuscinski decides to go to the front, where the wrong greeting could cost your life and where young soldiers-from Cuba, Russia, South Africa, Portugal-are fighting a war with global repercussions. With harrowing detail, Kapuscinski shows us the peculiar brutality of a country divided by its newfound freedom.

Excelente. Habla sobre la guerra de independencia en Angola en 1975. Como siempre, Ryszard narra desde en terreno, con entrevistas a gente de a pie y con reflexiones sociológicas, antropológicas, y geopolíticas que emanan de ellas pero de carácter general. Increíble.