A review by jill
The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Did not finish book.

I quite enjoyed this book, which offers a journalist's perspective on Africa over a 40 year span (starting in the '50's). Covering the tumult of countries' revolting against their colonial overlords, to traveling an open desert and risking death by snake bite, to everyday life in West Africa, the book showed me countless scenes I could never have imagined. Not a page-turner, though, and it was recalled to the library before I could finish it.