Roadblocks
Jeremy Harding
- Fishing in Africa: A Guide to War and Corruption by Andrew Buckoke
Picador, 227 pp, £17.50, May 1991, ISBN 0 330 31895 0 - Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent by Blaine Harden
HarperCollins, 333 pp, £16.99, April 1991, ISBN 0 00 215889 2 - The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by William Brand
Granta, 234 pp, £2.99, November 1990, ISBN 0 14 014209 6
Two of these books are by real journalists – Blaine Harden for the Washington Post, Andrew Buckoke for the financial Times and others. The third is by a Writer, Ryszard Kapuściński, who spent many years masquerading as a correspondent for the Polish news agency, PAP. In covering epic misfortune of the kind one reads about in Africa, all three have learned to talk straight from the shoulder, although Buckoke’s is slightly hunched under the white man’s burden and Kapuściński’s is often set to the wheel of invention, which makes much of his plain speaking deceptive. Only Blaine Harden keeps a respectable posture throughout and can even be quite sanguine in adversity – mostly other people’s.
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