Another Day of Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Paperback · April 17, 2001
In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony.
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- Who it’s for
- Kapusciński’s impressions place Angola’s upheaval amid a war with global repercussions.
- Themes
- Angolan civil war, Colonial rule and independence, Political upheaval
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In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese.
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It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers—from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal—fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
History at Close Range
Kapusciński’s impressions place Angola’s upheaval amid a war with global repercussions.
Come here for
- A personal account of Angola’s abrupt independence and turmoil
- Young soldiers from four countries, caught in a nebulous war
Expect
- A journey through checkpoints where the wrong shibboleth could mean death
- A close look at a country divided by newfound freedom
Where it sits
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 56% |
|---|---|
| Other Military Conflicts | 40% |
| Central African History | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Southern African History
- Other Military Conflicts
- Authors
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 17, 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Angolan civil war · Colonial rule and independence · Political upheaval
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs