I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola…

Ryszard Kapuscinski
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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. ✨ An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering. Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.
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if reason ruled the world would history even exist? ✨ Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). Travels with Herodotus, p.92, Vintage

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. ✨ An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering. Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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