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Mr Kapuscinski's account of Idi Amin's rule is inaccurate and his history of Rwanda is botched.
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These gleanings from old notebooks tell how Mr Kapuscinski rumbled in buses and cattle trucks through the landscapes where most Africans live.
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Mr Kapuscinski tells it as it felt, rather than as it was, describing sometimes, it seems, distastefully relishing whatever is bizarre, humiliating, disgusting, exotic.
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Things got worse and Mr Kapuscinski watched the degradation.
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Mr Kapuscinski went to Africa as a journalist, but goodness knows what the Polish Press Agency made of his copy, since his true vocation is that of a Literary Traveller, a dispenser of fine sensibilities and finer prose.
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