great travel books: Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Soccer War

In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 after their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup. By the time, he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups and been sentenced to death four times. "The Soccer War" is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.[src.: amazon.co.uk]

Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Soccer War
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Ryszard Kapuscinski "The Shadow of the Sun"

If there is a book about Africa "The Shadow of the Sun" is defo one of the books that will come to people's mind. Written by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski the book is actually a collection of essays about his experiences in Africa he made in 40 years of beeing a foreign correspondent - from the initial enthusiasm in the 1950s when colonial power began to wane to the destruction of that dream and war and starvation.
Each essay could stand alone, but all together they are forming a pretty unique portrait of Africa, the people and, of course of the author, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski died on January 23, 2007, at the age of 74. As a foreign correspondent, Kapuscinski covered coups and revolutions in the developing world for forty years. This interview originally aired in 1988.

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