I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
Ryszard KapuscinskiLiterature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.
Ryszard KapuscinskiMore than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.
Ryszard KapuscinskiAmin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
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